Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii: Mahjong, the Rainbow Cup and Hannya-Man

Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii: Mahjong, the Rainbow Cup and Hannya-Man All right, mahjong is another one worth separating out because there's a difference between winning a hand, winning the whole table, and getting the tournament reward. You can do the first one and still finish last. If you're trying to clean up the completion list or collect the Hannya-Man headgear, here's how I'd approach it. Finding Fantasia Go to Pearl Avenue in western Honolulu, around Chinatown. Find the entrance marked Fantasia Mahjong and use the elevator. Select basement level B1. The tables are downstairs, so walking around the building at street level won't get you to the actual games. Inside you'll find three difficulty tables and a staff member at the counter. The normal buy-ins are: • Beginner/Easy: $125. • Intermediate/Medium: $250. • Advanced/Hard: $500. • Rainbow Cup: $1,000 once unlocked. All of those are in-game dollars. For one visit to each ordinary table and one tournament entry, the listed buy-ins total $1,875 before any money you get back. Bring more if you're planning retries. Unlocking the Rainbow Cup Play at all three normal tables, then speak to the staff member at the counter about the tournament. You don't have to finish first at every table just to unlock it. First-place finishes are separate completion requirements. Finish each session and let its result register before moving on. There's no reason to risk quitting halfway through and assuming the game counted it. Winning the Rainbow Cup pays $5,000 and gives you the Hannya-Man headgear on your first win. That $5,000 is the listed prize, not $5,000 profit after paying the entry fee. There isn't a big exchange shop full of mahjong points and prizes like there is for shogi or pool. The Nine Gates Tile If you're collecting the outfit and don't want the tournament to turn into an all-night project, save a Nine Gates Tile for it. This is a consumable, unlike The Basics of Shogi. It doesn't become a reusable assistant after you obtain one. There are two fixed sources to check: • Kamulop's Fortune Exchange at the Little Japan shrine: ten Fortune Points, one purchase in the initial stock. • A shipping container in the southwestern corner of Shipper's Wharf. Go to the southwest of the actual wharf district, rather than stopping in the Anaconda shopping area. The container immediately farther west around the corner holds Toughness Infinity instead; if you get that, you've passed the neighboring container you want. Players have reported extra tiles from random briefcases, but I wouldn't plan around finding another one that way. Use the two fixed sources as your reliable options. Make a manual save before entering the tournament if you want a fallback. Accept the prompt to use the tile when starting the game. It gives you the thirteen-tile Pure Nine Gates setup, so you're already waiting for the last tile in a very valuable hand. Keep that setup intact. If Ron or Tsumo is offered, take the win. Don't start calling Pon or Chi just because a button appears, and don't break the hand apart trying to improve something the item already prepared for you. The setup still needs a winning tile; the item isn't simply a button that awards the tournament trophy. How the ordinary games work A normal completed hand is fourteen tiles: four groups of three and one pair. A group can be three identical tiles or a sequence such as 3-4-5 in the same numbered suit. You can't make a sequence by mixing three different suits. Seven Pairs and other special hands are exceptions to that basic shape. You also need a yaku, which is a qualifying scoring pattern. Having a completed-looking arrangement or a few bonus tiles doesn't automatically let you win. For a straightforward starting approach, keep the hand closed and work toward Riichi. That means avoiding open calls while you assemble the hand. When you're one tile away and eligible, this game prompts you to declare Riichi. Confirm it and make the indicated discard. You're then committed to the hand rather than freely swapping it around every turn. Ron means claiming somebody else's discard to complete your hand. Tsumo means completing it with your own draw. Either type of hand win counts toward the cumulative win requirement. A few useful patterns to recognize • Riichi: declare it with an eligible closed hand one tile from completion. • All Simples/Tanyao: every tile is a numbered 2 through 8. No ones, nines, winds or dragons. Kuitan must be enabled if you're making this with an open hand. • Value tiles/Yakuhai: a triplet of a dragon, your seat wind, or the round wind. A random wind triplet doesn't always qualify. • Seven Pairs: seven distinct pairs in a closed hand. Four copies of one tile don't count as two separate pairs for this pattern. Those give you several practical ways to build a legal hand without trying to memorize every rare combination immediately. For shorter sessions, choose Half Game/East-only where the settings allow it. Kuitan on lets an open All Simples hand qualify. Red Dora on adds bonus opportunities. Leave the two-han restriction off while learning. Dealer repeats can still extend a session, so the shorter format doesn't guarantee exactly four hands. Why the game sometimes won't let you claim a tile Dora add value, but they aren't a yaku on their own. Pirate Yakuza highlights dora tiles in your hand, which is useful, but the glow doesn't mean your hand has met every requirement. The other big one is furiten. If any tile that could complete your current hand appears in your own discards, you can't win by Ron, even on a different tile that would also complete it. You can still win by drawing the tile yourself. Changing your wait can remove discard-based furiten before Riichi; after declaring Riichi you can't freely rebuild the hand. Passing a winning discard can also temporarily prevent Ron. If you've already declared Riichi and pass one, that restriction lasts for the rest of the hand. Take a valid win when it's offered unless you understand exactly why you're passing it. Protecting a first-place finish Once you're ahead, you don't have to force a win on every hand. If an opponent declares Riichi while your own hand is still a mess, consider defending. A tile they've already discarded is safe from Ron by that player. It isn't automatically safe against the other two players. That matters because the table requirements check your final placing. Losing a little ground while protecting a lead can be better than throwing away first place by dealing into a huge hand. The completion checklist • Win five hands: 1,000 Reputation. • Win ten hands cumulatively: another 3,000. • Finish first at the Easy table: 1,000. • Finish first at the Medium table: 5,000. • Finish first at the Hard table: 10,000. That's 20,000 Reputation across the five listed milestones. The ten-hand count is cumulative; you don't need ten wins in one sitting. The table requirements need first place at the end of the session, not merely one winning hand during it. Then add the Rainbow Cup win for the $5,000 prize and Hannya-Man. Check all three table finishes separately rather than assuming the tournament replaced them. That's everything to account for on this activity's completion and unique reward side, without confusing a lucky hand with having the whole thing finished.