Learn · Class 6 of 20
Winning
Honour tiles are where scoring gets interesting. This class explains why a pong of your seat wind, the round wind, or any dragon pays bonus points — and what you score for holding no honours at all.
Basics Two roads to Mahjong: a claimed discard and a self-draw, who pays for each, and the floor. 8 min
Welcome back. Sit, I'll deal.
Last time, claims. Mahjong outranks them all.
Today, two ways to win. Tidy first.
Two runs and three Norths. Three sets.
East opens. Then you draw.
Four sets, a pair, and one gap.
West threw it. West pays.
Thirty-one tai. Only West pays.
Declare short, it's a false Mahjong.
You pay all three. More on that later.
A fresh hand. This time, the wall.
All three pay you.
Thirty-six tai, from each of three.
Self-draw scored five tai more.
Claim it, or draw it. Both win.
You can win now. Next, Flowers.
Rules & tiles in this class
This is the reading companion. The class itself is interactive — play it free:
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