Mahjong in North East China 东北人的麻将

A colleague invited few of us go to her house to spend the weekend, she cook, and we play, that's the plan ;)

We spend quite long time at her house, and to pass time, gambling is something 'must do', and mahjong is one of the game that can easily pass time. Not playing with any real money, they like to 'punish' people when someone has loose. For e.g. sing a song, make a jokes.. anything.. I was so worry every time finding out who is the looser.. simply bcoz I cannot sing, cannot dance, I can do nothing lah !! Finally I tell them I drink beer when I loose, and luckily my luck is quite good that day :p

Back to the Mahjong game, found it's different from what we had in MY. They claim this is the easiest rules to play with, I also think the same after few round。

Here are some the rules:
- It is 4 person game.
- Dun need to count 'fan' 翻
- No 'flower' 花
- 'Zhung' 中, 'Fa' 发, 'Bai' 白板, is useless, cannot 'peng' 碰, only 'gong' 贡 (not sure is this in Mandarin, those matched for 4) or used as the 'eyes' 对眼
- Must 'kai men' 开门. 'kai men' means has to either 'peng' 碰, 'gong' 贡, or 'lian' 连, that can 'show' it on the desk.
- Dun have 'tian hu' 天糊 concept, can't 'hu' 糊 if there is no 'kai men' 开门
- 'bao' 宝: remain 'pai' 牌 after each person got their 'pai' 牌 after dice. The remain would be make as 'bao'. When any one is waiting for game, can check if this 'bao' is what they want
- Could happen no game: 11 blocks must be remain, if no one win the game before these blocks, the game consider no lose-no win

learn: tu men 突门
- a trick used to 'kai men' 开门. For e.g. I has 1-2-3 on hand, but I am not 'kai men' 开门 yet, when the person before me put the 2 out, i will use get that 2, and put out my 2, simply exchange the same number, same pattern to make myself 'kai men' 开门

how to game:
1. Must 'kai men' 开门
2. Must has all pattern, 万，筒，索子
3. Must has at least 3 same 'pai' 牌, for e.g 1万-1万-1万, 1 'lian pai' 连牌, for e.g. 4-5-6
4. Must has either number 1 or 9 for the whole set.

The one waiting for game, can have look at the 'bao' 宝 to check if it is the one he can win the game. After look at it, he cannot change his 'pai' 牌 anymore, means next time, 'mo' 摸 whatever 'pai' 牌 has to put whatever 'pai' 牌 out, until he game

Also, there is a bit different how they call the pattern:
wan 万 - wan 万
tong 筒 - bing 饼, China 'sao bing' 烧饼, in round shape
suo 索 - tiao 条

Dun know what am I talking here?? :D
I believe if you know Mahjong, you would understand this easily, else, this would be non-sense to you. Sorry that I have not much interesting topic recently