Mah-Jongg One Player
Jeux
Mah-Jongg
The different Mah-Jongg tiles
Circle tiles (Tung Jee)
Bamboo tiles (Sok Jee)
Note: Bamboo tile n°1 is
represented by the image of a sparrow.
Character tiles (Man Jee)
(2) Honor tiles consist of Dragons and Winds: (Fan Jee)
There are three Dragons, Red, Green and
White, with four tiles each.
Red (Chung), Green (Bold), White (Bak)
There are four Winds, East, South, West and North, with four tiles each.
Est (Dong), Soud (Nam), Ouest (Say), Nord(Buk)
3) An optional group of 8 Flower tiles exists: Spring,
Summer, Autumn, Winter, Plum, Orchid,
Chrysanthemum and Bamboo (no relation
to the Bamboo tiles of the Common group). (Far Pai)
Goal of the game :
Accumulate the most points by completing 10 rows of 14 tiles.
That is, 1
horizontal line of 14 tiles and 9 vertical lines of 14 tiles.
Once the 10
lines are completed the game is over.
It is only once a line is completed that we can count the points of this line.
Example of game
In Pink the Horizontal line
Material:
Mahjong tiles.
How to play
The
player shuffles all the Mahjong tiles.
Then, he draws 8 tiles.
In
the first round the player must place at least 2 tiles, then he must place at
least 1 tile.
Before each turn, a player must draw the same number of
tiles that he placed to always have 8 tiles in
hand.
To start, the
player must complete the horizontal line by laying tiles. He can complete the
line
in several rounds. But each turn the player must place at least 1 tile,
(Except for the
first round where he must place at least 2 tiles.
Once
the line is completed, the player counts the points of the line according to the
table below.
Thereafter, the player can start completing the 9 vertical
lines, in the order and the way he wants.
desire.
A vertical line must
always be started from one of the tiles in the horizontal line.
A
horizontal line tile can be used to build two vertical lines only if this
tile is the start or end of a vertical line. Either like lines A and B of the
drawing above.
A player can build several vertical lines at the same
time. Each turn, the player decides on
which line he places his tile(s). He
can place one or more tiles on several lines.
The player can rearrange
the tiles in a row to put them in order, but without changing the position of
the row.
line.
Once a line is completed, the player counts the points
of the line according to the table below.
Points table
Pair: two matching tiles of any number and of the same kind
Pung: three
matching tiles of any number and of the same kind
Gong: four matching tiles
of any number and of the same kind
Common tiles |
Honor tiles and Flowers |
Pair : 10 Points Pung : 20 Points Gong : 40 Points |
Pair : 20 Points Pung : 40 Points Gong : 80 Points |
Special winning hand 200 points
All numbers on the tiles are
odd
All tile numbers are even
All tiles are a terminal number (1 or 9)
All tiles are honors (or flowers)
All tiles are of one kind
Only two
digits in the line (ex. 33333888888888)
Line of seven pairs
Three gong
line (3x4)
Example of lines and points