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FAQs

What is soap in Mahjongg? ›

Seasoned players call white dragons, Soap. The soap or white dragon belongs to the Dots tile suit. There are 4 white dragons in a mahjong tile set.

Mahjong Combination: Big Four Winds/Big Four Blessings (大四喜)

No prize for guessing, but the Big Four Winds/Big Four Blessings winning hand is said to have the lowest probability in a game of mahjong. With a rare 1 in 57,856 chance of happening, this combination must go onto your Instastory!

Riichi. Declaring riichi means declaring a ready hand, and is a kind of yaku. A player may declare ready if a player's hand needs only one tile to complete a legal hand (tenpai), and the player has not claimed another players' discards to make open melds.

The green fa, which comes from “fa cai,” meaning “strick it rich,” symbolizes an archer releasing their draw as well as sincerity. The door-like symbol is the “bai ban,” or white door, which means freedom from corruption, a miss in archery, and filial piety.

A player wins once a winning hand of 4 sets and a pair is assembled, either by drawing a tile or claiming a discarded tile, calling “sik wu 食糊” (Cantonese for 'Eat Congee') to signify their win. If more than one player wants to claim the same tile to win, the player whose turn is the soonest takes the win.

American Mah Jongg is considered the most difficult style because only the hands listed on a card are considered valid.

The original Chinese word for a winning mahjong hand means "harmony", referring to the harmonious state of the regular hand, with 4 sets and a pair. The Thirteen Orphans hand is the polar opposite of the regular hand: it is the hand which is the most difficult to develop (by drawing and discarding) into a regular hand.

In Japanese mahjong, yaku (Japanese: 役) is a condition that determines the value of the player's hand. It is essential to know the yaku for game strategy, since a player must have a minimum of one yaku in their hand in order to legally win a hand.

Dora are tiles that are worth 1 han each, just by having them in your hand. However, just because dora are worth han does not mean that they are a yaku. You must have a yaku to win a hand and benefit from the bonus han that dora provide.

What is a ron in mahjong? ›

Ron is the call when the winning tile is discarded by another player. This winning tile can be called regardless of which player discards it, and regardless of whether it forms a meld or completes the player's pair. Tsumo is the call when the player draws the tile themselves out of the wall at the start of their turn.

American Mahjong Tiles, "Sakura": Featuring a traditional Japanese cherry blossom motif, "Sakura" is revered as a symbol of rebirth, and the embodiment of beauty and mortality.

Dragons. There are 3 types of dragons: Green Dragon, Red Dragon, White Dragon (also called Soap). There are 4 instances of each dragon tile in the game.

o The "1-4-7 rule" is a good playing strategy (for all forms of Mah-Jongg except American (style similar to NMJL) in which there are no "chows"). If the player to your right discards a 4, and you don't have another of those to discard, you /might/ be all right if you discard a 1 or a 7.

One of the most important rules of Mahjong is that a player cannot use a joker for a single or pair. A joker can substitute for a tile(s) in a pung, kong, or quint combination. Accordingly, a player cannot use a joker for “NEWS” or for the year (ex. “2021”), as these are a group of singles.

People were always turning the tile over to see what was on the other side (revealing to others that the tile was a white dragon). So a rectangular design was added. [Added Nov. 24, 2004] American players thought the blank tile looked like a bar of soap, so they call this tile "soap" to this day.

The name, signifying “sparrow” (maque), has been variously transliterated as ma tsiang, ma chiang, ma cheuk, and ma ch'iau. The sparrow or a mythical “bird of 100 intelligences” appears on one of the tiles. The name mah-jongg was coined and copyrighted by Joseph P.

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Chii: This is the call to complete a sequence. The chii call can only be used for discards from the player immediately to the left of the player calling. Pon: This is the call to complete a triplet. The pon call can be used for discards by any player.