Mahjong is a matching game, essentially. Each tile has a unique pattern and another tile with the same one. You need to stack the tiles (multiple ways to do this) and match them.
There are even tables that have 8 openings so that it can automatically dispatch the starting hands of players based on the what the dice roll result is. Also the tables for riichi mahjong can calculate points and ranks based on how many tenbos you have in the storage.
Mahjong table is the one invention that has stayed consistent in design for the past decade and more. I remember visiting the country as a kid and seeing these around
I can explain how to play Majong, I'm chinese. The tiles are the following: 4 of each: The Numerals: 10k (As of 10,000), 20k, 30k, all the way to 90k. The Winds: (The ones with a big cardinal symbol on them) The Northern wind, The south wind, The west wind and The east wind. (Yasuo Lmao) The circles: (Can't come up with a reasonable translation sorry) 1 to 9 circles. Bamboos: 1 to 9 (The 1 is a bird) The Honours: The Red Middle letter (Literally Middle, in red, 中, since this game is at least 2000 years old it was used to simbolize China (中国））, The Rich Letter and The White board. In many regions there are 8 more tiles, which are the four seasons and four flowers. Basically at the start of a game the majong tiles are placed in 4 rows of 18 pairs each, so 148 tiles (Including 4 Seasons and flowers) in total. Majong differs in many variations is different regions in China, so I'll explain the one I'm used to and play. The game must be played by four players, not one more or less, when you start without the winner of the last game (It's the first game in the seating), any player rolls one or two dices (This is to decide the starting player), for example you rolled 8, you'll need to count counterclockwise 8 players starting from yourself, so it's gonna be the player on your left. After that the chosen player rolls the dice (to decide which side we'll start drawing the tiles from) and counts just like you did in the first dice roll but instead of counting the player you count the majong rows, then the player who rolled the dice starts to count from the left to the right of that row one pairvat a time the number he just rolled and start drawing from there, and you draw counterclockwise for the rest of the game. If you have a winner from last game you just skip the first dice roll and just do the second. He/she starts by drawing four tiles in the (Two pairs at a time) then the next player draws four, and so on, until everyone has drawn 3 times each (If you're not the one starting then you should have 12 tiles) and then you draw one more except the player whovis starting, who draws two (Because he's starting and everyone draws one at the start). The game is simple, the goal is to Hu (胡), to form 4 sets of 3 of one kind or 3 consequential tiles (For example 20k, 30k and 40k) paired with one pair of the same tile. This is the most basic winning hand. There are more others like Same Color, which is to do the same thing I said above but with the same category of tiles (Like all sticks, all circles), or to do All Pairs (7 pairs in total). There are many ways to gather tiles to form your Hu: Drawing, Chi (吃) which means to eat, is when you have two consequential tiles (like 2 Bamboos and 3 Bamboos) and the player BEFORE YOU throws a 1 stick or 4 sticks on the table and you take it, you then must place the 3 tiles in front of your hand. Then we have Peng (碰), is when you have two identical tiles and ANY player throws a third one and you take it, likewise you need to out the three tiles in front of your hand. Lastly you can Gan (杆) which is 4 of the same tile (This is fairly hard to do since you'll need to have all 4 tiles of that single tile in the entire tile pile), you can either draw it youself (Which is more valuable) or to do the same thing as Peng but with 4 tiles. So to start the starting player has to put a tile in his hand to the table center. The next player draws a tile from the draw pile and has to either do an action like Chi, Peng or Gan if he can, or to just put the tile he thinks he doesn't need to form the Hu. The game proceeds like this until a player forms his Hu. The harder the Hu is, the more valuable it is, so the more points the winner gains. The points are usually money if you are serious enough. That's it! If you have any questions ask me! I'll probably remember things I maybe forgot later.
I was curious how the machine could make sure that all of the tiles are facing the right way in the end. But looking at the internal mechanism, I'd guess that the there is something on the white side, just under the surface, that is attracted to a magnet. Pool tables also often use magnetism to separate the cue ball from the other balls. It's commonly thought to differentiate by the size of the ball, but I think the magnet solution is more common.
@@Little_Sams_Top_Guy For coin operated tables. Some have a magnet, some the cue ball is slightly larger than the rest so it doesn’t fit down the shoot and is deflected back.
It’s definitely magnets on the white side. You can see them when the top is open at the very end with the last two tiles that are in the shuffling bin in the middle
Farming simulator 19 was free for ps4 users this month, getting actual farmers vlogs reccomended now and all I watched were a couple of tips and tricks videos.
The sorting and mechanical movements are fun to watch. You should incorporate a glass top with the smart glass window tint that switches on and off. Then you can turn the tint off while the machine is running and then turn it on when the machine stops.
I've been awakened in the middle of the night by shuffling mahjong tiles all throughout my childhood by degenerate gambling family members. MAHJONG is addictive.
Mass produce and years of heavy competition made them so cheap. In my hometown these machines are standard equipment for any tea shop. And you can look for Japanese made automated mahjong tables, which have lots of cool features, and of course far more expensive.
That is just awesome. I know it probably defeats the purpose of the game, but I wish I had like a clear glass top just so we can look at the mechanism more clearly
Some people saying Mahjong is hard, but in truth the BASE rules isn't that hard to follow. Through out the game you'll have 13 tiles in front of you, and you're drawing 1 to make 14. In those total 14 tiles, you want to separate them into 4 sets of 3 tiles and 1 pair (3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 2) Your aim is to FINISH your hand first before someone else does. Not to make the "Strongest". The most basic of rules, simply make the 3 tiles in each set follow some kind of logical pattern within the same suit. For example, 1 2 3 of Bamboo Tiles, or 5 5 5 of Number Tiles. The tiles that has the Compass marking and the Red Dragon/Green Dragon/Empty tiles, they can only be combined into Triples (So if you have compass tile, you NEED 3x of the compass or the Dragon tiles to make a set. You cannot do 1 Red, 1 Green and 1 Empty tile to call it a set). As for the pair tile, simply make any pair. So a very basic hand that you can end up getting can be something like: (1 2 3 of Circle tile) + (5 5 5 of Number Tile) + (3x South Tile) + (6 6 6 of Number) + (2x of North Tile) = 14 tiles in total with each set following a logical pattern. So through out the game, you're drawing and discard tiles one after another, and everyone is simply trying to finish their hand first, with their hand consisting ATLEAST a basic pattern of 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 combination. So it's, weirdly like Poker where you have 5 Cards in total, each card is representing each set, so you're trying to "Make a Card" for your hand by finishing the set of 3 tiles. ------------------------------------- Now this is the easiest... What makes Mahjong hard is when we start talking about "Yaku" (Level of Point) and alllllll the rules around this and in all honesty where it gets daunting at first. When you make a Hand, you can make your hand worth alot of Yaku so when you finish your hand first, you can take a certain number of points from your opponent. What effects your Yaku, is the hundreds of different combinations you can do with your hand that can increase it, but there are certain things that can also TAKE away Yaku from your hand and attempting to memorize all of this is a absolutely nightmare because some combination is worth more Yaku than others.
@@howardjones543 Almost, but there's also a big list of "legal" hands that you also need to match A winning hand is 4 sets of 3, a pair and then one of those patterns, for example only having numbers between 2-8 and no special tiles, or every set being a run and your winning tile being part of a run
Man last time I thought about mahjong I just remember my grandparents manually shuffling their tiles while playing with friends... Technology has grown
mike102688 - We learned how to play craps in my statistics class in college. I’ve never played mahjong though other than the video game where you find matches.
@@deanacollins3508 That's not mahjong though that's just tile matching using mahjong tiles . Here how the REAL mahjong is played . www.coololdgames.com/tile-games/mahjong/#:~:text=In%20summary%2C%20the%20Mahjong%20rules%20are%3A%201%20All,a%20tile%20from%20their%20hand.%20More%20items...%20
@@KTFlaSh96 automatic mahjong table but did you mean the brand ? We change brand every year as automatic mahjong table improve overtime iust like any electronics
As an ex cropier I remember when machines were introduced to sort the gaming chips which I thought was a wind up before they were installed in the casino 30 years ago. I've seen this played but don't understand it The machine is absolutely amazing.
@@kraftzero2947 No. In Mahjong you have for different "colours" of stones ranging from one to 9, the four wind directions (each 4x), three dragon stones (each 4x) and a bnch of other specific stones. So using dominos wouldn't work at all ^^
Actually, you use the tiles you have on hand and constantly keeping certain ones and discarding the useless ones. Discarded tiles go in the middle so players can take a tile into their hand. Tiles have a certain order, type, and pattern you need to win. There are slight variations to it to. This is only the traditional Chinese mahjong.
@@Cookivirus the simple matching game is mahjong solitaire, "real" mahjong is a multiplayer game trying to collect hands with specific sets of tiles for example having 3 or 4 or the same can be a set, or 3 tiles following each other can be a set (eg the 3 4 and 5 of the same type) of specific sets of symbols together and so on where you try to obtain points from the others. If you watch anime and wanna know some things about mahjong try saki or akagi. Both have fansubs which explain at least some of it. I don't understand it all myself but that's the basics of the basics
I learned to play Mahjong at 12 years old for fun playing with my cousins.. My grandmother had 3 Mahjong tables when I was young, neighbors come to play and gamble. It's actually pretty easy to learn. It's good I don't play it now just to gamble..lmao
This takes me back. My dad thought us mahjong and always remember the build the wall bit :) We lived next door to a Chinese family and dad said after he’d been round one night, that he’d never seen so much cash before when they were playing for money lol
RU-vid after I watched the news about a Chinese police man destroying automatic mahjong table: "okay now he knows that thing exist better to know how it works as well."
I have some vague ideas of what Majong is (Truffles was playing it in _Chowder_ with her old lady friends, and my mom used to play a solitaire variant with stacked tiles), but I had no idea tables like this existed.
When i went to china my mums friend had an automatic mahjong table and i played a few rounds with it then when i left to go back to new zealand i instantly forgot how to play even a bit of mahjong
It's 4 sequence and/or triplets and one pair, but it's also not just any sequence and triplets. There's a winning hand with 7 pairs but that one doesn't worth much. I understand why mahjong kinda intimidating because unlike poker, Mahjong has so many winning hand and some of them might even change or added in the game depending on the region it played.
I wouldn't even be surprised if there are also ones with 2 colors for harder cheating and less time loss in tournaments etc. (like in the anime you can often see that between hands the backside of the tiles has a different color for example orange and dark blue are iirc mostly used there
Big magnets under the conveyor belt and magnetic orientation in all tiles. Also the wheel that lifts the tiles is bi-directional and can spit them out again. Lastly there is an optical sensor on all four sides to count the tiles, discard the ones that are upside down and spit back tiles when enough have been stacked
Out of curiosity. I did a project back in College where we were supposed to sort different battery types. And the only way we could think of was sensors. How much were the sensors for all of them?
