Hong Kong Old Style Scoring

Hong Kong Old Style	Overview	Gameplay	Scoring

The many differing Hong Kong Old Style Mahjong rulesets can be grouped into two variants: "Clear Chapter" and "New Chapter"…

Clear Chapter only uses Fan from Chinese Classical Mahjong. However, the scoring system is greatly simplified.

New Chapter (aka Cantonese Mahjong) uses the Chinese Classical Fan list plus a set of additional Fan. Two common lists of Fan from within HK are referred to as New6 (六獨) and New18 (十八番). Fan imported from British Mahjong are also common. "New Chapter" rulesets use the simplified scoring system of "Clear Chapter", but with a Discarder-Pays-All payout system.

Note: Both "New Chapter" and Guangdong Style are often referred to as Hong Kong New Style (HKNS). Although both variants use "New Style" patterns, the original "New Style" variants existed long before HKOS.

After a player says "Mahjong" (and it's confirmed they have a valid winning hand) their Fan are totaled and converted into points. Then they receive a payout.

The Fan Table (Half-Spicy)

After the player's hand's Fan are totaled, they are converted into points using the table below.
Most players set a maximum Fan limit. 10 is common.
In the case of a Fan limit of 10, and hand worth 10 Fan or more would be worth 128 Points.

Fan	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Pts	1	2	4	8	16	24	32	48	64	96	128	196	264	384	528	792	1056	1584	2112

The Payout

Using the Points value, the winning player receives a payout from their opponents. This depends on if the player self-drew or called the winning tile from a discard.

Self-Draw: Each player pays the winner Points x2.
Discard: The discarder pays the winner Points x2, the other two opponents pay Points x1.

List of Fan

HKOS

Most Common Traditional Fan
Name	Fan	Description
Self-Drawn Win	1	Drawing the winning tile from the Live Wall
Dead Wall Win	1	Drawing the winning tile from the Dead Wall
Robbing the Kong	1	Winning of a player's Added Kong
Last Tile Win	1	Winning upon drawing the last tile in the Live Wall
Last Discard Win	1	Winning off a discard after the final tile was drawn
Blessing of Heaven	10	East draws a valid winning hand (no Self-Drawn Kongs
Blessing of Earth	10	Non-East draws a valid winning hand (no prior Calls)
All Chows	1	4 Chows & 1 Pair
Seat Wind	1	Pung/Kong of the Seat Wind
Round Wind	1	Pung/Kong of the Round Wind
Green Dragon	1	Pung/Kong of the Green Dragon
Red Dragon	1	Pung/Kong of the Red Dragon
White Dragon	1	Pung/Kong of the White Dragon
All Pungs	1	4 Pungs/Kongs & 1 Pair
Half Flush	3	Combo of 1 Suit and Honors
Little Dragons	5	2 Pungs/Kongs and 1 Pair of Dragons
Pure Flush	7	Combo of 1 Suit and no Honors
Big Dragons	8	3 Pungs/Kongs of Dragons
Small Winds	10	3 Pungs/Kongs and 1 Pair of Winds
All Honors	10	Honors only
Thirteen Orphans	13	One of each Terminal, Dragon, and Wind
Big Winds	15	4 Pungs/Kong of Winds
Nine Gates	15	Player has 1112345678999 in 1 Suit
4 Kongs / 18 Arhats	18	4 Kongs & 1 Pair
Flower Fan
Name	Fan	Description
No Flowers/Seasons	1	The player drew no Flowers or Seasons
Seat Flower	1	The player drew a Flower coinciding with their Seat Wind
Seat Season	1	The player drew a Season coinciding with their Seat Wind
Four Flowers	2	The player drew all four Flowers
Four Seasons	2	The player drew all four Seasons
8 Flowers & Seasons	8	The player drew all eight Flowers & Seasons

Local Fan
Name	Fan	Description
Seven Pairs	5	The hand is made up of 7 Pairs. 4-of-a-Kinds usually count as 2 Pairs (but Kongs do not)
Kong-Kong	5	The player called "Kong!", drew a replacement, called "Kong!" again, and then won
Kong-Kong-Kong	8	"Kong!", replacement, "Kong!", replacement, "Kong!", "Mahjong!"
Four Concealed Pungs	8	4 Pungs/Kongs & 1 Pair, but all 4 Pungs/Kongs were Self-Drawn
7 Flowers Robbing the 8th	8	Drawing 7 Flowers/Seasons and Calling the last Flower from an opponent
Jade Dragon	10	Combo of Bamboo suit and Green Dragons
Ruby Dragon	10	Combo of Characters suit and Red Dragons
Pearl Dragon	10	Combo of Circles suit and White Dragons

Both the "Jewel Dragons" and Seven Pairs were contributions from "Western Mahjong" that had long been used in "New Style" rulesets.
Four Concealed Pungs was not in the original Chinese Classical rulesets, but became commonplace in "New Style" rulesets.

Some feel that leaving such ubiquitous patterns out of HKOS is anti-Mahjong; others feel keeping them in is antithetical to HKOS.

Let's Mahjong!

It's not Guangdong Style, because it uses a Fan system.
It's not HKNS, because it uses HKOS's contemporary scoring & payouts.
Let's Mahjong! is "New Chapter" Mahjong; the transition from HKOS to Guangdong Style.
The ruleset combines Clear Chapter (HKOS) and New Chapter (NEW6 & NEW18) winning conditions.

Name	Fan	Description
CLASSIC
Self-Drawn Win	1	Drawing the winning tile from the Live Wall
Dead Wall Win	1	Drawing the winning tile from the Dead Wall
Robbing the Kong	1	Winning of a player's Added Kong
Last Tile Win	1	Winning upon drawing the last tile in the Live Wall
Last Discard Win	1	Winning off a discard after the final tile was drawn
Blessing of Heaven	10	East draws a valid winning hand (no Self-Drawn Kongs
Blessing of Earth	10	Non-East draws a valid winning hand (no prior Calls)
All Chows	1	4 Chows & 1 Pair
Seat Wind	1	Pung/Kong of the Seat Wind
Round Wind	1	Pung/Kong of the Round Wind
Green Dragon	1	Pung/Kong of the Green Dragon
Red Dragon	1	Pung/Kong of the Red Dragon
White Dragon	1	Pung/Kong of the White Dragon
All Pungs	3	4 Pungs/Kongs & 1 Pair
Half Flush	3	Combo of 1 Suit and Honors
Little Dragons	5	2 Pungs/Kongs and 1 Pair of Dragons
Pure Flush	7	Combo of 1 Suit and no Honors
Big Dragons	8	3 Pungs/Kongs of Dragons
Small Winds	10	3 Pungs/Kongs and 1 Pair of Winds
All Honors	10	Honors only
Kong Hand	12	4 Kongs & 1 Pair
Thirteen Orphans	13	One of each Terminal, Dragon, and Wind
Big Winds	15	4 Pungs/Kong of Winds
Heavenly Gates	15	Player has 1112345678999 in 1 Suit
NEW6
Single Wait	1	Winning with a single choice
Concealed Hand	1	No Chow, Pung/Kong from others.
Fully Concealed	3	All 14 tiles were Self-Drawn
All Simples	1	No Terminals or Honors
Lacking a Suit	1	Combo of 2 suits and no Honors
258 Pair	1	The pair is a 2, 5, or 8
NEW18
Fully Exposed	1	All 4 Melds are exposed and the Pair was called off a discard
All Types	1	Combo with 3 different suits, Winds, and Dragons
Double Chow	1	Two identical Chows
Four into One	1	Use 4 identical tiles between 1 Pung and 1 Chow
Min-Max Chow	1	Chow 1 and 9 with the same suit
Min-Max Pung	1	Pung/Kong 1 and 9 with the same suit
Three Sequence Pung	2	3 Consecutive Pungs/Kongs in the same suit
Three Concealed Pungs	2	3 Self-drawn Pungs/Kongs
Train Hand	3	123, 456, 789 in one suit
Three Suits Pung	3	Three Pungs/Kongs of the same number in 3 suits
Three Suits Chow	3	Three Chow of the same sequence in 3 suits
Mixed Orphans	3	All combos contain a 1, 9, or Honor
Pure Orphans	5	All combos contain a 1 or a 9
Four Sequence Pung	8	4 Consecutive Pungs/Kongs in the same suit
Four Concealed Pungs	10	Four Self-Drawn Pungs/Kongs
Double Double Chows	10	Two pairs of two identical chows
All Terminals	18	Combo of only 1s and 9s
OPTIONAL
No Flowers/Seasons	1	Optional: The player drew no Flowers or Seasons
Seat Flower	1	Optional: The player drew a Flower coinciding with their Seat Wind
Seat Season	1	Optional: The player drew a Season coinciding with their Seat Wind
Four Flowers	2	Optional: The player drew all four Flowers
Four Seasons	2	Optional: The player drew all four Seasons
8 Flowers & Seasons	8	Optional: The player drew all eight Flowers & Seasons

The payout depends on if the player self-drew or called the winning tile from a discard.

Self-Draw: Each player pays the winner Points x2.
Discard: The discarder pays the winner Points x4, the other two opponents pay nothing.

Perlman & Chan

It's not Guangdong Style, because it uses a Fan system.
It's not HKNS, because it uses HKOS's contemporary scoring & payouts.
Perlman & Chan's ruleset is "New Chapter" Mahjong; the transition from HKOS to Guangdong Style.

Note that this variant leaves out extremely common patterns like "Dragon Pung" and "All Kongs"; an odd choice.

Name	Fan	Description
All Chows	1	Hand consists of all chows.
Two Terminal Chows	1	Hand contains a chow of 123 and 789 from the same suit.
Mixed Double Chow	1	Hand includes two chows of the same numbers but in different suits.
Two-Suited Straight	1	Hand contains three consecutive chows from 1-9 using two suits.
Two-Suited Shifted Chows	1	Hand includes three chows in two suits, each shifted up either one or two numbers from the last.
Self Draw	1	Player goes out on a self drawn tile.
Concealed Hand	1	Player goes out with a concealed hand from an opponent's discard. Kongs are considered concealed.
Special Eyes	1	Hand contains a pair of 2, 5, or 8s.
Single Chance Hand	1	Player goes out on a single, edge, or closed wait.
Out on Replacement	1	Winning on the replacement tile drawn after declaring a kong. Counts as self-drawn.
Robbing the Kong	1	Winning off the tile that somebody adds to a melded pung.
Last Tile Draw	1	Self-drawn win on the last tile of the wall.
Last Tile Discard	1	Win by discard on the discard after the last tile of the wall is drawn.
Last Tile	1	Winning on a tile that is the last of its kind. This fact must be clear based on the visible discards, melds, and the winning player’s hand.
Fourth Pung	1	Going out with three exposed pungs and a double pair wait.
Hidden 4-5-6	1	Going out with a self draw tile with a hand containing a concealed 4-5-6 chow. Combines with self draw.
Two Terminal Pungs	1	Hand contains a pung of 111 and 999 from the same suit.
Double Pung	1	Hand includes two pungs of the same number in two different suits.
Three Concealed Pungs	1	Hand contains three concealed pungs. Kongs are considered concealed.
Four In One (Small)	1	Hand contains four of one tile across a chow and a pung.
All Simples	1	Hand consists of numbered tiles 2 through 8.
One Voided Suit	1	Hand contains two suits and no honor tiles.
Seat/Prevailing Wind	1	Hand includes a pung of the player's seat or prevalent wind.
Pure Double Chow	2	Hand includes two identical chows in the same suit.
Mixed Straight	2	Hand contains three consecutive chows from 1-9 using three suits.
Mixed Shifted Chows	2	Hand includes three chows in three suits, each shifted up either one or two numbers from the last.
Double Last Tile	2	Hand goes out on a two-sided wait where there is only one live tile of its kind. I.e. three of each wait is exposed or discarded.
Fully Melded Hand	2	Hand includes four melded sets and is won by discard.
Two-Suited Shifted Pungs	2	Hand includes three pungs in two suits, each shifted up either 1, 2, 3 or, 4 from the last.
Four in One (Med)	2	Hand contains four of one tile across two chows and a pair.
Outside Hand	2	Hand includes terminals and honors in each set, including the pair.
Pure Straight	3	Hand includes three consecutive chows in the same suit, making a nine-tile straight.
Mixed Triple Chow	3	Hand includes three chows of the same numerical sequence, one in each suit.
Pure Shifted Chows	3	Hand includes three chows in one suit, each shifted up either one or two numbers from the last.
Fully Concealed Hand	3	Hand consists entirely of concealed sets and is won by self-draw.
Self Drawing a Single Chance 5	3	Going out on a 5 when it completes a 4-5-6 chow or a pair of 5s. (Implies self draw and single chance).
All Pungs	3	Hand includes four pungs and a pair.
Mixed Shifed Pungs	3	Hand includes pungs in three suits, each shifted up either 1, 2, 3 or 4 from the last.
All Odd/Even Pungs	3	Hand contains sets and pair with all odd tiles or all even tiles.
Chicken Hand	3	A hand that would otherwise earn 0 points. (Optional)
No Flowers	3	Hand contains no flowers. (Optional)
Half Flush	3	Hand composed entirely of honors and suit tiles of only one suit.
All Types	3	Hand in which each set, including the pair, is composed of a different type of tile (characters, bamboos, dots, winds, and dragons).
Small Tiles	3	Hand contains tiles from 1-5.
Medium Tiles	3	Hand contains tiles from 3-7.
Big Tiles	3	Hand contains tiles from 5-9.
Pure Lesser Terminals	3	Hand includes terminals in each set and contains one chow.
Little Three Winds	3	Hand includes two pungs of winds and a pair of winds.
Two Short Straights	4	Hand contains double two continuous sequences.
Pure Shifted Pungs	4	Hand includes three pungs of the same suit, each shifted one up from the last.
Triple Pung	4	Hand includes three pungs of the same number, one in each suit.
Pure Shifted Pungs	4	Hand includes pungs in one suits, each shifted up either 1, 2, 3 or 4 from the last.
Thirteen Unconneced Tiles	5	Hand contains no tiles that can form a potential sequence or pair.
Pure Triple Chow	6	Hand includes three identical chows.
Double Two Terminal Chows	6	Twice two terminal chows.
Kong on Kong	6	Going out on a replacement tile after making two consecutive kongs.
Going Out	6	Going out on last tile of D1, B1 or White Dragon.
Replacement Tile	6	Going out on a replacement tile of D1 or D5.
Three Kong	6	Hand contains three kong.
Double Two Terminal Pungs	6	Twice two terminal pungs.
Seven Pairs	6	Hand consists of seven pairs.
Four in One (Big)	6	Hand contains four of one tile across four chows.
Three Numbers	6	Hand includes only tiles of any three numbers as a pung or chow. Dragon or wind tiles are counted as one number.
Seven Stars	6	Thirteen unconnected tiles with one of each honor tile.
All Linked	6	All sets including the pair include a common numbered tile.
All Green	6	Hand is composed entirely of the 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 of bamboo and/or green dragon tiles.
Little Three Dragons	6	Hand includes two pungs of dragons and pair of the third dragon.
Big Three Winds	6	Hand contains three wind pungs.
Full Flush	9	Hand consists entirely of suit tile of the same suit.
Big Seven Pairs	9	Hand contains seven pairs as two identical sets and a pair.
Big Three Dragons	9	Hand includes three dragon pungs.
All Terminals and Honors	9	Hand consists entirely of terminals and honors. Implies All Pungs, Outside Hand.
Two Numbers	12	Hand is composed of only two numbers.
All Flowers	12	Hand contains all flowers. (Optional)
Three Ladies	12	Hand contains pure shifted pungs and a corresponding chow of the same numbers.
Little Four Winds	12	Hand includes three pungs of winds, and a pair of the fourth wind. Can combine with Prevalent Wind and Seat Wind.
All Blue	12	Hand is composed entirely of the 8 of dots, white dragon, or wind tiles.
Quaduple Chow	Limit	Four identical chows.
Blessing of Heaven	Limit	Going out as dealer on original hand.
Blessing of Earth	Limit	Going out as non-dealer within the first go-around.
Four Concealed Pungs	Limit	Hand includes four concealed pungs.
Thirteen Orphans	Limit	Hand is composed of singles of any 12 of the 1, 9, and Honor tiles, along with a pair of the 13th. Combines with Fully Concealed Hand if Self-Drawn.
Seven Big Stars	Limit	Seven pairs hand with all honors.
Ninte Gates	Limit	Holding a concealed hand of 1112345678999 tiles in one suit, and winning on any tile of the same suit.
Big Four Winds	Limit	Hand includes four wind pungs.
All Terminals	Limit	Hand made with only terminal suit tiles.

The payout depends on if the player self-drew or called the winning tile from a discard.

Self-Draw: Each player pays the winner Points x2.
Discard: The discarder pays the winner Points x4, the other two opponents pay nothing.

Home: Home
Back: Hong Kong Old Style Gameplay