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A bonus tile (flower or season) is drawn; A meld (pong, kong, or chow) is made from a discard; Going mahjong (declaring a winning hand) Robbing a kong; During play, each player's hand should always be 13 tiles (meaning in each turn a tile must be picked up and another discarded).
These tiles are entirely optional. When inserted into play, one copy of its regular non-red counterpart is removed. They increase the score when melded. Japanese sets typically do not include the Four Gentlemen flower tiles to make room for the red tiles as flower tiles are rarely used in Japanese Mahjong anyway.
Japanese mahjong (Japanese: 麻雀, Hepburn: Mājan), also known as riichi mahjong (立直麻雀), is a variation of mahjong. While the basic rules to the game are retained, the variation features a unique set of rules such as riichi and the use of dora. The variant is one of a few styles where discarded tiles are ordered rather than placed in ...
The winning tile is from a replacement tile due to a Kong or a Bonus Tile Win by Double-Kong: 槓上槓 (gong3 soeng5gong3) 9 (8 bonus +1 from self-pick) Similar to 'Win by Kong', except that the tile used to make the Kong was itself an extra tile from declaring a Kong Heavenly Hand: 天糊 (tin1 wu4*2) 13: East wins with initial hand Earthly Hand
Mahjong tiles with Latin letters and Arabic numerals added for an American audience. American mahjong, also spelled mah jongg, is a variant of the Chinese game mahjong. American mahjong utilizes racks to hold each player's tiles, jokers, and "Hands and Rules" score cards.
Mahjong Tiles is a Unicode block containing characters depicting the standard set of tiles used in the game of Mahjong. Block. Mahjong Tiles Official ...
Mahjong solitaire (also known as Shanghai solitaire, electronic or computerized mahjong, solitaire mahjong or simply mahjong) is a single-player matching game that uses a set of mahjong tiles rather than cards. It is more commonly played on a computer than as a physical tabletop game. It can be played using genuine tiles and a special wooden ...
the wait for the inner side of outermost two simple tiles (i.e. 3 for 12 or 7 for 89) made into a shuntsu: tanki-machi (単騎待ち) the wait for another single tile (e.g. 1 for single 1, East for single East) made into a toitsu: shanpon-machi (双碰待ち) the wait for either tile in two toitsu (e.g. 1 or 2 for 1122) made into a kōtsu: 0 fu