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What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by Barticle » Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:22 pm

No, it´s not a joke!

I came across the word Jankyuu in an online dictionary, defined as a \"combination of Japanese pinball* and mahjong\" which obviously piqued my curiosity!

After a little light Googling I found this video of a Jankyuu machine which has been restored to working order in America. Cool! B)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erzwspvQmFs

Has anyone come across this before? Have you got one, Tom?! :silly:

*I think bagatelle is a better comparison.

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Re:What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by Barticle » Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:33 pm

I found a playable online game!! :laugh:

http://game.5stone.net/online/jyan.html

Press the top blue button to get your initial 14 balls and use the handle at the bottom-right to launch them.

Once you have a hand of 14 tiles you can use the row of blue switches under them to discard one. You get another ball, launch it and get another tile, etc. The red counter shows how many more turns you have.

The second blue button (agari) is used to declare a win. I got Honitsu on my first attempt! :woohoo:

:south :south :south :west :west 1-crak 2-crak 3-crak 6-crak 6-crak 6-crak green-dra green-dra green-dra

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Re:What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by Tom Sloper » Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:23 pm

Barticle wrote:No, it´s not a joke!
...Have you got one, Tom?! :silly:
Nope, not familiar with this.
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Re:What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by Poochy » Wed Feb 03, 2010 12:33 am

Barticle wrote:I found a playable online game!! :laugh:

http://game.5stone.net/online/jyan.html
After about 3 or 4 hands, I was starting to notice that I was getting the EXACT same draws every time...

Initial draw (in order):
:east :south 8-bam 9-bam 6-crak red-dra :north :west :east red-dra :east :south 8-bam 9-bam

After this comes:
6-crak red-dra :north 7-bam :south for ippatsu
At this point I\'d have riichi + ippatsu (because the 7-bam immediately before the :south would make me tenpai, so I\'d riichi):
:north :north :south :south :south :east :east :east 7-bam 8-bam 9-bam red-dra red-dra red-dra

The pseudorandom number generator is improperly seeded.

Edit: Playing on gives me this draw pattern:
:east :south 8-bam 9-bam 6-crak red-dra :north :west :east red-dra :east :south 8-bam 9-bam
6-crak red-dra :north 7-bam :south 8-bam 9-bam 6-crak red-dra :north 7-bam 3-bam 8-bam 9-bam 6-bam red-dra 4-crak 7-bam 3-bam 8-bam 9-bam

This yields the possibility of what would be a Suuanko in regular play:
:north :north :south :south :south :east :east :east 9-bam 9-bam 9-bam red-dra red-dra red-dra

Edit: The game has a different draw for the first hand only. After that, it seems to be stuck on this pattern. Also, this only works if you hold down the lever for a little before releasing it.

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Re:What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by Barticle » Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:57 pm

Poochy wrote:The pseudorandom number generator is improperly seeded.
I guess you can\'t expect a hardcore physics-engine in a free game but it should at least be able to produce a reasonably randomised output.

I only played a couple of games before I posted so didn\'t see any pattern, although I did notice that you can control the launch speed.
This yields the possibility of what would be a Suuanko in regular play:
If only all games were so flawed (generous)! :laugh:

I think it\'s just nice to be able to try the game without having to find a machine. Isn\'t the internet great? :silly:

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Re:What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by Shirluban » Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:50 pm

I don\'t expect much in RNG fairness from a free Flash game, but !ouch! is seems really flawed!

In four games, I get twice
:west :west :west 1-crak 1-crak 1-crak 3-crak 4-crak 6-crak 6-crak 6-crak green-dra green-dra green-dra.
and once
:west :west :west 1-crak 1-crak 1-crak 3-crak 3-crak 6-crak 6-crak 6-crak green-dra green-dra green-dra
Barticle wrote:I did notice that you can control the launch speed.
Indeed, maybe I trend to set always the same speed, unwillingly.
Barticle wrote:I think it\'s just nice to be able to try the game without having to find a machine. Isn\'t the internet great? :silly:
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Re:What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by WorTeX » Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:04 am

I have no idea what I\'m doing but just got su anko, sho suushi, tsuuiisou(was that all honors), or atleast I have the tiles for it :o

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Re:What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by Barticle » Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:32 am

With each successive post my initial Honitsu is looking less impressive!

...and there was me thinking I\'d finally mastered the subtle interplay of luck and skill required for MJ (in all its forms)! :lol:

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Re:What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by Benjamin » Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:35 am

These machines used to be popular in pachinko parlors and were played for real money but have since all but disappeared. You can still find them in large arcades, generally outside of the Tokyo area.

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Re:What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by Poochy » Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:10 am

Shirluban wrote:
Barticle wrote:I did notice that you can control the launch speed.
Indeed, maybe I trend to set always the same speed, unwillingly.
Yeah, if you do a quick click, the ball tends to stay on the left; holding it down a split-second longer makes it tend towards the right. But from what I can tell of the engine, you reach a maximum power quite quickly, and holding it down any longer than that will still fire at the exact same max power.

The draw sequence I posted above assumes you fire every ball at max power.

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Re:What do you get if you cross mahjong w/ pachinko?

Post by hirohurl » Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:06 pm

That was fun, but once is enough! Waiting for suuanko tanki - but I couldn\'t hit the 4Characters...

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Re: What do you get if you cross mahjong with pachinko?

Post by Barticle » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:42 pm

After seeing another random reference to Jankyū today I thought I'd bump this old thread for anyone that missed it before.

The flash game I linked in my second post still works. :) (complete with authentic arcade background noise)

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