What are the three main suits in mahjong?

Bamboo, Character, and Dots are the three main suits. Each suit contains four sets of tiles numbered 1-9, making 36 tiles total for the distinct categories. The Honor tiles have two classifications: Dragon and Wind. There are three sets of four Dragon tiles (12 total) and four sets of four wind tiles (16 total).

What are all the suits in mahjong?

Mah-Jongg tiles are comprised of three suits of One through Nine: Craks (also called Characters, Wan, or Ten Thousand), Bams (also called Bamboos or Sticks), and Dots (also called Balls or Circles), and other tiles known as Winds, Dragons, and Flowers (in American Mah-Jongg, Seasons tiles are referred to as Flowers).

What are the important tiles in mahjong?

Circles, Characters and Bamboos are known as "suits". The suit tiles numbered 2 - 8 are known as the "minor" tiles. The remaining suit tiles, 1 and 9 are known as the "major" tiles. The Wind and Dragon tiles are known as "honour" tiles.

How many suites are there in mahjong?

Mahjong has six suits, including bamboo (also called sticks). The bamboo simple suit is also referred to as sticks.

What suit is soap in mahjong?

The white dragon tile on the left is also known as "Soap". Soaps can be used as zeroes when putting together certain hands.

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What suit is green dragon in mahjong?

If a hand is shown in black, it can be made up of any suit but all tiles must be of that one suit. It is important to remember that Green Dragons go with Bams, Red Dragons go with Craks and the White Dragons [Soaps] go with Dots (see Help Sheet).

What is the strongest hand in mahjong?

Mahjong Combination: All Honours (字一色)

If you have a hand made up of either the four Winds or three Dragons, you have an All Honours winning hand. This combination only appears once every 5,200 round.

What do you say when you win mahjong?

That's four groups and a pair: a complete hand. Immediately say, "Mah-Jongg!" Lie all your tiles down on the table, face-up. (If you use racks, place them on the top shelf of the rack.) You have won the hand.

What does the white dragon mean in mahjong?

The Dragons

There are three "dragons": the red dragon (chun), symbolizing the middle or animal order (including humans), the green dragon (fa), symbolizing the lower or plant order of life, the white dragon (pai pan – white tile), symbolizing the higher or spirutual order of beings.

What are the four flowers in mahjong?

Depending on the Mahjong set, the flowers are commonly the Plum Blossom, Iris, Bamboo, and the Chrysanthemum. These four flowers/plants represent the Four Confucian Gentlemen/women.

What tile is 0 in mahjong?

0: soap (white dragon) - when it is being used as a zero in a year hand.

What tiles to discard mahjong?

Honors tiles (Winds and Dragons) are the best choice for discarding because they are hardest to work with; you cannot make sequences out of them, only Pungs or Kongs ("sets").

Why does my mahjong set have 16 flowers?

Sometimes sets come with extra tiles: extra flowers, extra jokers, extra blank tiles. Don't get all a-twitter (or all a-Facebook) over it -- it's perfectly normal for a manufacturer to add more tiles. And sometimes a previous owner may have acquired extra tiles and thrown those in, too.

What is the secret to mahjong?

Always match tiles that will free and open up the most new tiles. If you have a pair that does not open anything yet, leave it until you need it. Concentrate on matching tiles on horizontal lines, as these are usually more difficult to remove.

What is a Pung in Mahjong?

pung (plural pungs) (mahjong) A set of three identical tiles.

What are Joker tiles for in mahjong?

Joker tiles (百搭牌, pinyin bǎidāpái) can be used to replace any suited or honor tile in putting together a hand subject to local restrictions. Four jokers are sometimes used in certain variants of Southeast Asian and Chinese mahjong, including Shanghainese mahjong. American mahjong uses eight jokers.

What are lucky tiles in mahjong?

What are Lucky Tiles? Lucky Tiles will provide you with more strategic choices and additional goals while playing! Each game will have a randomized number of Lucky Tiles for you to match! When a Lucky Tile is matched then up to two sets of other tiles will automatically match.

What does the snowflake do in mahjong?

'Frost'(Snowflake) helps to freeze the combo counter until you collect 5 pairs of tiles. The multiplier grows without falling. It helps to earn a higher score in the game.

What does Kong mean in mahjong?

There are three main types of melds: a Pong (three identical tiles), a Kong (four identical tiles), and a Chow (three suited tiles of the same suit in numerical sequence).

What is it called when no one wins in mahjong?

Within each round, the winds / seating position will rotate as follows: East, South, West, North (counterclockwise). This also happens in the event of a dead hand (where nobody wins).

What is the end goal of mahjong?

The goal of mahjong is similar to poker, in that the aim is to make matching sets and pairs. A set is three or four identical tiles or three consecutive tiles (also known as 'melds'), and a pair is two of the same tiles (often called 'eyes'). To win mahjong a player must form four sets and one pair.

Who gets priority in mahjong?

The first priority goes to any player who can claim the discarded tile to complete a mahjong. A player who can do this claims the tile, then reveals the winning hand of 14 tiles. Failing that, any player can claim the discarded tile to complete a pung.

Can you take a joker from a dead hand in mah-jongg?

Can you redeem a Joker from a “dead” hand? A. Yes. You may exchange Jokers from any exposures that were made before the hand was declared “dead.” Once a hand is declared “dead,” any Jokers that were exposed at the same time as that declaration cannot be redeemed as that is when the error was made.

Should you push or fold in mahjong?

In general, you should push if: You are in tenpai and your minimum value is above 3900 points with a good wait. You are in tenpai and your minimum value is above 7700 points with a bad wait. You are 1-shanten and your worst hand development guarantees you 7700 points and a good wait.

Can you call yourself dead in Mah-Jongg?

Please remember that it is not the player's responsibility or in their best interest to declare their own hand dead. The player would continue playing defensively until another player challenges them.