MAHJONG GAMES : scoring system

As I know mahjong, I worked in the jungle of MAME mahjong games : all these games have sometimes different rules and almost always different presentation, aims to reach or scoring system.

That's why , so that players' task become a little easier, I classified these games and tried to determinate a logical scoring system which can also be homogen for all of them . And I think I find it ...

THE RULES : I won't talk about them : there are so complicated that even in my native french language it's a pain to explain them ; so I let you search in some books or sites talking about this game.

A GAME : 3 results are possible *you make a mahjong and it gives you points *your opponent make a mahjong and it substracts you points *nobody make mahjong (a sort of tie) and most of the time there is a kind of random "stone/cissors/paper" which gives you +1500 , -1500 or 0

A WIN (when you defeat your opponent) : I classified games in 3 distinct categories 1°) TYPE A : you can read 2 scores : yours (usually you start with 1500) and your opponent's score (various : 10000 , 20000 ... it depends on the game). As when you earn points they are substracted to your opponent, the aim is to bring your opponent under 0 (you can do that with 1 brilliant mahjong which gives lot of points or with several games). EXAMPLES : galkoku, mjcamera, mjlstory, mjnanpas, msjiken, ntopstar, otonano, peepshow ...

2°) TYPE A' : You can read only 1 score : yours The aim is to keep your score positive and to make 3 mahjongs (sometimes 2) to defeat your opponent

3°) TYPE B : Bet games ... only 1 mahjong to win , it gives you credits , you can bet with them like casino games or goldstar (for those who hasn't play this game, it's asterisqued on marp because he disappeared since several versions) SCORING SYSTEM : * GAMES OF TYPES A & A' (A like "additive system") : 1 win = 100000 + final pts when you win ; score = total wins + highest pts reached when you lost

* GAMES OF TYPE B (B like "bet system") : I'm still studying it, and will post that soon

It was really headache to make simple with such complicated games , and I hope this contribution will help (thanks to Lagavulin for his help)

PHIL

ps : of course I'm volunteer to confirm scores on mahjong games ; but it will be kind from all players to notice their additional scores like I do ; and beware : a lot of mahjong games need to be recorded with SOUND OFF

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