The REAL Reason Why You CAN'T WIN in Mahjong | 5 Yaku Beginners Must Know

Not knowing what Yaku are is the main reason you can't win in Mahjong. In this tutorial, I'll explain the basics of winning in a game of Mahjong and how to use Yaku to your advantage.

In this video I will also show 5 beginner friendly Yaku that are extremely easy to obtain and remember, watch the video to find out what the best Yaku for Mahjong beginners are!

#mahjong #riichi #mahjongsoul

🎬 Timestamps:
00:00 What are Yaku in Riichi Mahjong
01:28 Chii and Pon in Riichi Mahjong
02:50 5 Yaku for Mahjong beginners must know
05:31 Practice spotting the Yaku!

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[aaronmorris]

I actually managed in my iPhone mahjong game to go out with 13 orphans. I wish I still had the screenshot.

[MilosTown]

oh my god you're a lifesaver. Im a Yakuza completionist and I learned the bare basics of Mhjong playing Yakuza 0, and that was enough to help me clear the objectives in all games from there, but i got stuck in 4 because I could not meet the requirement they asked (gain a specific amount of total points in a single game).
despite knowing the basics sometimes i lost and i didn't entirely understand why was it that NPCs could win when stealing, which led me here to learn exactly when its acceptable to do so

after learning properly about yaku i managed to do it, that was almost 10 hours of trying just for this 😅

[Pribumi]

This is a funny coincidence. I first introduced to your channel via the japanese learning videos half a year ago, then this month I started to take interest in mahjong and eventually decided to learn japanese mahjong and re-discovered your channel again lol

[philipalexander]

This channel deserves so many more subscribers your Japanese language learning videos are beyond valuable. Also I lose a lot in yakuzas mahjong mini game this video is great too 😂

[shawnscouten]

Thanks for these guides, it makes it very understandable, a bunch of the guides tend to move quite quickly and use a lot of terms and be very confusing as a result.

[SHINJIxCORE]

Really good resume on basic strat. I only call Chi or Pon when I have a Yaku ensured or it's clear and kinda easy to achieve, aaaand when calling pon or chi helps my hand to advance (less shanten away from tenpai).

[MrOmagaG]

Me an Expert 3 in Mahjong Soul watching this for no reason.
But in all seriousness, it's a nice video for beginners!

[Ace-rgic]

These videos are helping me learn, my second day playing riichi and I'm addicted

[monarchx]

For those seeing my comment. These are complicated  but theres also a
1. Most complicated is triple sequence like 123 123 123 or any order of each type of tile  as long as they're same sequence different type of tile. The other five can be any sequence, or a triple, with any pair
2.  All ends meaning all are 123s and 789s with a pair of 9s or 1s (doesnt matter what types of tiles)
Both of these can be open

[GermanTodd]

Great videos and some helpful beginner advice! Just a bit of language help though, suit isn't pronounced "sweet", but rather it rhymes with "root" and is pronounced exactly the same as the suit that one wears. I think you're confusing "suit" with "suite" which is, for example, is like a hotel room with an adjoining room.

[pclouds]

Yakuza games brought me here. I'm now highly suspicious that Yakuza is Yaku-za though I don't know what that "za" means.

[DiginauterZockt]

THIS LITTLE TIP MADE ME UNDERSTAND ALL OF MAHJONG

[Kazu-don]

TY!!! I finally understood how the prevalent wind works

[erhomie]

holy shit… this was great. looking forward to the quads video!!

[ambrose]

I remember reading that book on mahjong riichi strategy with that whole tsuji and 5 block thing.
And man was that a waste of time. Just play the game and figure it out yourself- that's the best way to do it

[silvershade]

Just started playing this cause I’ve been more than a little interested in it for a bit, it’s so interesting though I have no clue how people keep all the later yaku memorized(I only really have the mentioned ones memorized atm)

[LovelySofii]

Almost had my first orphan with 200mil on the line on Golden Hoyeahslots, I was missing the blank cube.

[kcolloran]

Tanyao does not necessarily work in all games, something players should be careful of. In Yakuza it's optional and the 3P variation I learned while I lived in Japan was full kuitannashi.

[EvanPang-wi]

1:03 oh my goodness I did not realize the sheer complexity of mahjong!! (Been playing for over 6 years with my family)

[dolls]

3:28 that's gonna hurt

Although I am a bit surprised that you chose chinitsu over pinfu