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The value is not rounded up to the tens. Some rules say seven pairs has 50 fu and one han, especially in the Kansai region. As an exception, if one wins by claiming a discard with an open hand with melds and waits to which no fu is awarded, the hand is not 20 fu but counted as a total of 30 fu. This is the fu for an open pinfu.
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 ...
In most rules, the yaku only applies if no opponent called a discard from the player's discard pile. Certain rules allow the player to make open melds. [4] In most cases, the value of this hand is mangan. When determining points, the hand is regarded as winning by self-draw.
Japanese and Korean mahjong have some special rules. A player cannot win by a discard if that player had already discarded that piece, where players' discards are kept in neat rows in front of them. Players may declare ready, meaning that they need one tile to win, cannot change their hand and win extra points if they win.
Korean/Japanese three-player mahjong, played in east Asia is an amalgamation of Old Korean mahjong rules (which traditionally omitted the bamboo suit and did not allow melded chows and had a very simple scoring system) with some elements of Japanese rules including sacred discard (a player cannot rob a piece to win if he discarded it before ...
In the traditional Hong Kong scoring system or the Cantonese scoring system, scoring tends to be low due to the few criteria used. The general scoring modifiers apply (see above), with the point translation function being a piecewise function: a constant amount is given for scoreless hands, and the score is doubled for each point (that is, an exponential function).
Love Letter is a card game introduced in May 2012 and designed by Seiji Kanai. [1] Its first English-language edition was produced in the United States by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) until 2018, when Love Letter was acquired by Z-Man Games (a subsidiary of Asmodee).
The player must discard a card from their hand If this card is in the same suit or family as one of the face up cards, the player then claims that card as their own, placing it face up in front of them; If this card does not match the suit or family of any face up cards, then that card remains face up for someone else to claim.