Learn · Class 11 of 20
The receipt
Honour tiles build the game’s most famous hands. This class climbs the wind ladder — Little and Big, Three and Four Winds — and the dragon ladder, up to the 90-point Honours Hand.
Advanced The first counted hand: base, every row, the floor, who pays, and the Pong that would have cost the win. 6 min
Welcome back. Sit, I'll deal.
Last time, you graduated. Now we count.
Every win has a receipt. Tidy first.
Two runs and three sixes. Three sets.
East opens. Then you draw.
Two reds. A third makes a Pong.
Four sets, a pair, and two circles.
East pays it all. Your receipt.
Base. Five. Always.
Two hidden Pongs. Five.
A pair of eights. Good Eye, two.
East's tile, one. No flowers, one.
Three reds. Dragon Pong, two.
Nothing shown. Concealed Hand, five.
Pong the reds, and these two go.
Hidden, twenty-one. Shown, eleven.
Eleven can't win at all.
Ten tai, from one Don't Claim.
Base first. Then every row adds.
You count now. Next, winds and dragons.
Rules & tiles in this class
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