Minefield mahjong
Minefield mahjong is a specialized mahjong variant found in the anime and manga series, Kaiji. This variant features two players, who take 34 tiles and arrange 13 of them into a tenpai hand. Any remaining tiles are used as player discards, where the players take turns making their discards. In a sense, this can be interpreted as a tile discard reading drill for defense practice.
Rules
- Players gather 34 tiles.
- Of the 34, 13 tiles are used to form a tenpai hand.
- Remaining tiles are to be used for discards.
- Players take turns making those discards.
- Order of which player makes the first discard may be determined using various methods, such as the dice roll or a coin flip.
- Naturally, if a discarded tile is a winning tile, then ron may be called.
- A player may not win with one's own discard; or a player cannot call tsumo.
- If a winning tile is discarded, then furiten is invoked.
- An additional rule to the hand formation may require players to produce a mangan or better hand.
Variation
If desired, players can default the setting for automatic riichi upon the first discard. In effect, that's a double riichi. This is for the purpose of just adding value.
The mangan rule may be turned off for greater hand variation. For a challenge, players can add the dice roll to determine the hand's minimum han value.
External links
- Flash version of the game