Mahjong is a traditional Chinese game that requires four players. Although the gameplay of all Mahjong versions is generally similar, there will be some differences in each region. If you want to win high scores in Mahjong, you need to understand the rules of Mahjong first. Below we will introduce the rules of a very popular Mahjong, Hong Kong Mahjong.
Basic Hong kong Mahjong has 136 tiles, including 36 different pieces each type 4 tiles. And there are three suits, from one to nine. Bamboo, Crack, Dot. There are four wind tiles East, South, West, and North each type 4 tiles. There are also three honors: red dragon, green dragon, and white dragon . Finally there are the flower and season tiles, each type labeled 1, 2, 3, 4.
Hong kong mahjong basic scoring:
| Set | Fan | Notes |
| Scores for basic sets | ||
| Pung of Dragons | 1 | |
| Kong of Dragons | 1 | |
| Pung of player’s Own Wind | 1 | Implies scoring for Pung of Winds |
| Kong of player’s Own Wind | 1 | Kong of player’s Own Wind |
| Pung of the Wind of the Round | 1 | Implies scoring for Pung of Winds |
| Kong of the Wind of the Round | 1 | Implies scoring for Pung of Winds |
| Scores for Flowers and Seasons | ||
| Flower of own Wind | 1 | |
| Season of own Wind | 1 | |
| All Flowers | 2 | |
| All Seasons | 2 | |
| No Flowers or Seasons | 1 | |
| Scores for patterns based on Pungs and Kongs ( = triplets) | ||
| Little Three Dragons | 4 | (Two Dragon Pungs/Kongs and a pair of the other Dragon) |
| Scores for patterns based on the whole hand | ||
| Chow hand | 1 | |
| Pung hand | 3 | |
| One suit and Honors | 3 | |
| Seven Pairs | 4 | |
| One suit only | 6 | |
| Scores for winning | ||
| Self-drawn last tile | 1 | |
| Out on the last tile of the Wall | 1 | |
| Out on the last discard | 1 | |
| Out by robbing a Kong | 1 | |
| Out on Replacement Tile | 1 | |