Gemma’s Journal #13 – Scoring
I have a fantastic post planned next.
So this will be my final scoring post – Answers to the last post! Unfortunately this has required a lot (probably too much) thinking on my part!
Remember to work out the hand points first and then if it’s less than four you’ll have to work out the troublesome base points!
(Also I think I’m using a slightly simplified scoring table for beginners.)
Question One
Seat = East
Self Drawn 
Hand points
One for double run Two for three coloured run One for closed self draw
Total = 4
Hurrah no need to count base points!
12,000
Question Two
Seat = North
Won off of someone else's discard 
Hand points
One drag One set of dragons Two for three concealed Trips
Total = Four hand points
Hurrah! We don’t have to work out base points!
8,000
Question Three
Seat = South
Won off of someone else's discard 
(In this one I didn’t show the hidden drag… oops! Let’s just pretend we weren’t using that rule!
Hand points
One for Peace hand One drag One for reach
Total = 3 hand points
We don’t have to work out base points for a peace hand either (hurrah!) so 3,900 That was quite sneaky of me to construct hands that didn’t use base points. (I did intend for Question One to need base points but I managed to construct a much better hand than I had intended originally.
I hope I got those correct! Someone should check for me! (^v^)
Another short post! Jenn and Garthe are really upstaging me. I have a fantastic post planned next. Well… when I say fantastic I mean fantastic if you, like me, HATE the all-pair hand. I want to take a closer look at it and see all the things I manage to do wrong with it. So start thinking about the strategies you have for the all-pair hand and hopefully we can have a discussion.
Also, if you’re not already registered on yakitorionline.com/, go and do so right this second! Been having great fun with the people over there discussing Mahjong and they’re so friendly, even to foolish beginners like myself, so please come and join in the fun!
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