⛀ Riichi Mahjong · Mahjong Soul
Why Riichi
Mahjong?
A four-player game of incomplete information where probability, psychology,
and pattern recognition collide. Every draw changes the calculation.
Every discard is a tell.
Current Status
Jade ✦✦✦
47 games played
Chess gives you perfect information. Poker gives you hidden cards but only one opponent.
Riichi mahjong gives you three opponents, a wall of 136 tiles, and the knowledge that
every tile anyone discards tells you exactly what not to be afraid of —
and hints at what you should be.
It rewards both the mathematician and the detective. You build hands toward scoring
combinations called yaku, manage your risk of dealing into an opponent's win,
and read the discards to model what the table is holding. No two hands play the same way.
What keeps it interesting
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Probability
Tile counts are public. You can calculate draw odds in real time — then feel them
disagree with the wall.
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Discard reading
Every discard is a clue. Build a mental model of each hand and avoid the tiles
that will pay them out.
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The declaration
Lock your hand. Stake 1,000 points. Signal to the table: I'm ready.
A gamble, a statement, a pressure play.
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Variance
Even strong players lose sessions. The measure is decision quality across
thousands of hands — not any single result.
A hand in four acts
01
Deal
13 tiles. Assess starting shape and target yaku.
02
Build
Draw and discard. Close the distance to tenpai.
03
Decide
Push or fold? Read the table. Manage deal-in risk.
04
Win or learn
Agari — or study what the wall held.
Hands & Lessons
Milestones
Apr 2026
First Haneman
Honitsu + Riichi + Ippatsu
Mar 2026
Promoted to Jade
Feb 2026
First online game