SINGAPORE MAHJONG CLUB · THE HONG KONG OLD STYLE TABLE
Play Hong Kong Old Style mahjong online.香港麻雀
The style most Singapore players already half know: the same calls and the same flowers, scored in faan, with a three-faan minimum and a dealer who keeps the deal.
144 tiles · faan · 3-faan minimum
Solo play is free, with no account, against three of the club’s regulars. A table with friends needs a free Basic account, and everyone plays for points: no money, no prizes.
New to this table? Play a guided first hand · Today’s deal: the same wall for everyone
How it differs from Singapore
- 144 tiles: flowers and seasons, but no animals, and the last fourteen tiles of the wall are never drawn.
- Faan, not tai: a hand needs three faan to go out, and scoring stops at the table’s limit of ten (滿糊).
- Base points double with each faan, and the table plays half shooter (半銃) or full shooter (全銃).
- The dealer keeps the deal after winning, and at this table after a drawn hand too; a game is four winds.
- The flower hands: all eight flowers and seasons (八仙過海), or seven with the eighth claimed (七搶一), are wins on their own.
The regulars at this table
Three of the club’s regulars sit down whenever you open a fresh Hong Kong Old Style table. Each plays the style properly and in their own way; you can change the seats at the table.
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Uncle Lim Counts every tile“Three faan, or you wait.”
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Mei Always first to ready“My Hong Kong cousins taught me this one.”
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Daniel Keeps the results book“Half shooter or full. I keep a note.”
Rules at this table
Four players, 144 tiles: the three suits, winds and dragons, and eight flowers and seasons. Play moves anticlockwise. Flowers are set aside and replaced from the back of the wall; the last 14 tiles are never drawn.
The aim
Four sets and a pair worth at least 3 faan. A chow is three in a row in one suit (from the player on your left only), a pung three of a kind, a kong four of a kind with a replacement draw. Scoring stops at the limit of 10 faan (滿糊).
Faan
| All chows 平糊 | 1 |
| Dragon pung 中 / 發 / 白 | 1 each |
| Seat wind pung 門風 · Round wind pung 圈風 | 1 each |
| Seat flower or season 正花 | 1 each |
| No flowers 無花 | 1 |
| Complete flowers or seasons 一台花 | 2 |
| Self-draw 自摸 · Concealed hand 門前清 | 1 each |
| Kong replacement 槓上開花 · Robbing the kong 搶槓 | 1 each |
| Last tile 海底撈月 · Last discard 河底撈魚 | 1 each |
| All pungs 碰碰糊 · Half flush 混一色 | 3 each |
| Seven pairs 七對 (table option) | 4 |
| Little three dragons 小三元 | 5 with its pungs |
| Full flush 清一色 | 7 |
| Big three dragons 大三元 | 8 with its pungs |
| Little four winds 小四喜 · Four concealed pungs 坎坎糊 · Nine gates 九蓮寶燈 | limit |
| All honours 字一色 · All terminals 清幺九 · Big four winds 大四喜 | limit |
| Thirteen orphans 十三幺 · Four kongs 十八羅漢 · Heavenly 天糊 · Earthly 地糊 | limit |
| Eight flowers 八仙過海 · Seven flowers take the eighth 七搶一 | limit, at once |
Points
Base points by faan: 0 → 1 · 1 → 2 · 2 → 4 · 3 → 8 · 4 → 16 · 5 → 24 · 6 → 32 · 7 → 48 · 8 → 64 · 9 → 96 · 10 → 128, times the table points. On a self-draw each player gives the base. On a discard win, the discarder gives the base and the other two give half (半銃).
The deal
The dealer keeps the deal after winning or after a drawn hand; otherwise it moves to the right. A game is 4 winds.
Table options
Minimum faan: 3 · Limit (滿糊): 10 · Discard win: Half shooter 半銃 · Dead wall: 14 · Seven pairs (4 faan): Off · Flower hands (八仙過海, 七搶一): On · Dealer keeps the deal on a draw: On · Winds: 4.
Hong Kong tables differ in their minimum, their limit and their flower hands; these settings define the rules used here.
At the table, the rules and points are a tap away: Menu → Rules & points.
The other tables
One club, 6 tables. Each keeps its own saved game, its own rules and its own regulars.