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Small Winds [a] 小四喜; siu2 sei3 hei2: 6 (6+3 fan for mixed one suit, 6+3 for all in triplets, or 6+10 for all honours) Melds of 3 winds and a pair of the 4th wind ----Great Winds 大四喜; daai6 sei3 hei2: 13 (3 fān from All in Triplets not counted) Melds of all 4 winds ----Thirteen Orphans 十三么; sap6 saam1 jiu1: 13
The seat winds rotate. The former dealer retrieves the 1 counter and the new dealer places 2 counters. South round, 1st rotation with 2 counters (南1局2本場). North wins by ron (claiming a discard), getting a bonus of 600 points from the discarder. The seat winds rotate and the former dealer retrieves the 2 counters.
In the traditional Hong Kong scoring system or the Cantonese scoring system, scoring tends to be low due to the few criteria used. The general scoring modifiers apply (see above), with the point translation function being a piecewise function: a constant amount is given for scoreless hands, and the score is doubled for each point (that is, an exponential function).
Big Four Winds / Big Winds: daisūshī – 大四喜 Double limit (when allowed) Open or Closed A variant of Little Four Winds hand, where it consist of four triplets/quads of winds. Some rulesets may double its value if allowed. All Honors: tsūīsō – 字一色 Limit Open or Closed A hand composed exclusively of wind and dragon tiles. All ...
Vietnamese mahjong sets commonly contain eight unique jokers: Blue/green jokers (khung xanh): Circle joker (筒, thùng) Bamboo joker (索, soọc) Character joker (萬, màn) Universal joker (縂, tổng) : In King Mahjong it is a Suit and Honor joker, in Vietnamese mahjong it can also be used like the flower joker. Hong Kongers may use the ...
American mahjong utilizes racks to hold each player's tiles, jokers, and "Hands and Rules" score cards. It has several distinct gameplay mechanics such as "The Charleston", [1] which is a set of required passes, and optional passing of the tiles. American mahjong is played with four players using mah jongg tiles.
Japanese mahjong tiles, including red dora tiles as well as season tiles which are used in variants. Japanese mahjong is usually played with 136 tiles. [7] The tiles are mixed and then arranged into four walls that are each two stacked tiles high and 17 tiles wide. 26 of the stacks are used to build the players' starting hands, 7 stacks are used to form a dead wall, and the remaining 35 stacks ...
Changsha mahjong is widely played in Hunan Province. Like Wuhan mahjong, players need to obtain special Jong consisting of only tiles of two, five or eight. Changsha mahjong forbids using winds and some special tiles, those tiles are first drawn out from the table when playing.