So I followed a link I found on this forum (
http://gamedesign.jp/flash/mahjong/mahjong_e.html) and tried playing some Mahjong for the first time. Now I have zero experience (most of what I what I know comes from watching Saki and Achiga-hen).
In the first han-chan, I predictably got my ass kicked by the computer:
However, in the second han-chan, this happened:
I got a Yakuman: Kokushi-Musou (thirteen orphans)
Lesson from this: getting Yakumans is easy. After all, a complete noob like me managed to get one after only sixteen games.
Saki and Achiga-hen seem much more realistic now. lol.