Scoring the Hands

Once a player has gone out with a Mahjong hand (five combinations plus a pair), that player's hand is scored by adding up the number of tái (represented by the symbol ) that hand is worth.

Note that gàng count everywhere as if they were triples, except as otherwise indicated.

The winning hand takes as many of the following as apply to their hand, except in the case where some are mutually exclusive. (For example, if you have both a Pure Hand and Self-Touch, you take the Pure Self-Touch score, not all three of them. If you have five hidden triples, you just take the "5 Hidden Triples" score, not the "5 Hidden Triples", "4 Hidden Triples", and "3 Hidden Triples".)

Name	Score	Explanation
Waiting for One	1	Were just waiting for one tile to go out, and won drawing that tile (doesn't have to be self-touch).
Exposed Gàng	1	Each exposed gàng.
Hidden Gàng	2	Each hidden gàng.
No Characters	1	Hand contains no winds or dragons.
No Flowers	1	Hand contains no flower (or season) tiles.
Pure Hand	1	Never took a discarded piece for gàng, pùng or chi.
Self-Touch	1	Personally drew the winning tile from the wall.
Pure Self-Touch	3	Both Pure Hand and Self-Touch.
Gàng Blossom	1	Drew winning tile when replacing extra tile from gàng or flower.
Plucking the Moon from the Bottom of the Sea	1	Drew the very last tile from the wall, and won with that tile.
Robbing the Gàng	1	Robbed a player's gàng to win.
Full Beggar's Hand	2	Entire hand formed from others' discarded tiles, with only one hidden tile left.
Three Dragons	1	Triple of any dragon.
House Wind	1	Triple of the wind corresponding to your "house" direction.
Round Wind	1	Triple of the wind corresponding to the prevailing wind of the round.
Flower Tile	1	For each flower tile corresponding to your "house" direction.
Four Flowers	2	All four flower (not season) tiles.
Four Seasons	2	All four season tiles.
Peaceful Win	2	Hand is all runs of three (sequences only), plus a pair. The pair must not be of winds or dragons. Waiting for One or Self-Touch are not allowed.
All Pòng	7	All triples (and a pair), no runs.
3 Hidden Triples	2	Hand contains 3 hidden triples.
4 Hidden Triples	7	Hand contains 4 hidden triples.
5 Hidden Triples	14	Hand contains 5 hidden triples.
Unified One Color	7	Hand is all from same suit, pair is of character tiles.
Lesser 3 Dragons	7	Two dragon triples, plus a pair of dragons.
Lesser 4 Winds	7	Three wind triples, plus a pair of winds.
Greater 3 Dragons	14	Three dragon triples.
Greater 4 Winds	14	Four wind triples.
Purely One Color	14	Hand is completely from one suit, including the pair.
Seven, Stealing One	14	If you have 7 flowers, you automatically win the game when the 8th flower is exposed. The person who drew the 8th tile is the loser. If you draw the 8th flower, you automatically win with Eight Immortals.
Eight Immortals	14	All eight flower tiles.
Heaven's Grace	14	Win on 1st turn with no gàng, pùng or chi.
Earth's Grace	14	Win on 2nd turn with no gàng, pùng or chi.
Dealer's Point	1	If the dealer wins the hand, he/she gets an extra 1.
Consecutive Win	2	Dealer gets an extra 2 for each consecutive hand he/she wins, after the first. This is in addition to the Dealer's Point.
Eight and a Half Pairs	14	Seven pairs and a triple. The triple must not be ``pong''ed from discards--it must be hidden.

Optional Rules

• Some people play with a ``full tái'' score of 8 rather than the 14 shown here for the big hands. In that case, the ``half-full-tái'' points (7 here) would be 4 .
• Some people award 2 just for going out, in addition to your other points.
• Particularly for beginning players, you may want to score 1 for each triple or gàng of any wind, regardless of which is the player's (or prevailing) wind direction. Likewise for flowers: score 1 per flower without respect to seat position.

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