I got a question for all you mahjong experts.. If I am doing ping hu and i am only lacking a ka long, and upper leg throws the ka long, and I throw away the end of one of the other sets e.g. 4 wan (2 3 4 wan set), can I game when someone throws 1 wan before I draw another tile?
Extension on the above, what if I have 1 2 3 4 5 6, and I throw away 1, can I game if someone throws 4 or 7 before I draw another tile?
Thanks guys/gals!
scenario 1: if throw 4, immediately after cannot eat/game 1 or 4
scenario 2: if u throw 1, and u have remaining cards 2,3,4,5,6...... u shift 2,3,4 one side as one set which is already erm... made a set. then u pluck out 5 and 6 to eat the 4 or 7 to game. that is permissible, ie, u have to look at the 1,2,3,4 and 4,5,6 or 5,6,7 as different sets and nothing to do with the 1 you threw.
then again, diff house, diff rules.
to note again, a good practice is to always take the card that people throw aka winning card, and place it together with your own cards to make a complete set or a complete 14 card hand.
a lot of people are plain lazy. like when someone throws a winning card, the winner simply yell 'pong' or 'gao' and then exposes his/her own cards without taking back the winning card and expects everyone to know/read the complete hand.
please, if u want my hand, make a bit of effort to show me what you have and not expect me to read for you and know how many tai u gao and how much to pay u. this type is call family/sifu never teach properly, no standard kind of play. sooner or later other players will be unhappy or quarrel esp when u keep winning and keep being lazy
lol ok end of rant