Chinese Mahjong is a popular Mahjong game. There are different ways to play the game in many areas of China. Here I will introduce the general rules of the Chinese Mahjong game.
- We need four players to start the game. The four players sit in the four directions of the mahjong table.
- Generally speaking, Chinese Mahjong consists of 136 Mahjong tiles. The tiles are divided into 3 types: Bams, Dots, and Cracks. Each type has 1-9 tiles, and each tile has 4 identical tiles.
- Determine the dealer: Before the start, determine the dealer by throwing dice. The next house clockwise from the dealer is the starting point of the first game.
- Discard: When discard tiles, each player first takes 13 tiles, and then the dealer takes 1 more tile, for a total of 14 tiles, and the remaining tiles are used as a tile wall.
- How to play: Players sequentially perform operations such as drawing tiles, discarding tiles, chow, pong, Kong and Hu until one of the players wins the game. When drawing a tile, a player can draw a tiles from the tile wall . When playing cards, players need to choose a tile from their hand and put it on the table. Other players can choose to Chow, Pong or Kong. The winning hand is that the tiles in your hand compose a specified winning hand pattern.
- Score calculation: After each round, calculate the corresponding number according to the different types of winning hand pattern. Finally, the winning or losing determined based on the score.