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Taiwanese Mahjong uses an additive scoring method.
Tai
After a player says "Mahjong" (and it's confirmed they have a valid winning hand) their Tai are totaled.
Dealer's Privilege/Curse
Whenever East wins, they receive bonus Tai.
If East won by discard, the Discarder pays 1 extra Tai.
If East won by self-draw, each opponent pays 1 extra Tai.
However, when the Dealer discards the Winning Tile, they pay one bonus Tai to the winner.
When the Dealer repeats as Dealer again (East wins or it's a draw), 2 Tais are added as a bonus for each repetition.
The Payout
Using the following equation, the winning player calculates their Points.
C = Consecutive Dealer Wins. The +1 denotes "Dealer's Privilege/Curse".
Points = Tai + 2C+1
Then the winning player receives their payout from the opponents depending on how they won…
- Self-Draw: Each player pays the winner their Points.
- Discard: The discarder pays the winner their Points, the other two opponents pay nothing.
So, the winner gets Points x3 for a win by Self-Draw, but only Points x1 for a win by Discard.
List of Tai
Although most Taiwanese rulesets use the same list of winning conditions, their Tai value can vary wildly.
The tables below come from videogame developer IGS and the LA Mahjong League's "House Rules".
Some additional rules not found in these rulesets are also listed.
| Description | IGS | LA | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dealer's Privilege | 1 | 1 | The dealer receives one extra point. |
| Wind Pung | 1 | 1 | Pung/Kong of winds. |
| Draong Pung | 1 | 1 | Pung/Kong of dragons. |
| Flower | 1 | 1 | Each flower scores 1 Tai. |
| Self-draw | 1 | 1 | Player self-drew their winning tile from the live wall. |
| Concealed Hand | 1 | 1 | The first 16 tiles were drawn by the player. |
| Single Wait | 1 | 1 | When you win, your hand is waiting for only one specific tile (edge tile/middle tile/single tile). |
| Fully Exposed Hand | 1 | 1 | All chows/pungs/kongs were called, and the winning tile was not won by self-draw. |
| Moon Fishing | 1 | 1 | Winning upon drawing the last tile in the live wall. |
| Robbing a Kong | 1 | 1 | Winning off an opponent's Added Kong. |
| Self-draw from Dead Wall | 2 | 1 | Winning upon drawing a Kong replacement tile from the dead wall. Some allow Flower replacement tiles. |
| Exposed Kong (Called/Added) | 1 | 1 | There is a Kong or Jia Kong, and each set of Kong cards adds a tai.) |
| Concealed Kong (Self-Drawn) | 2 | 2 | When there is a hidden kong, each set of hidden kong counts as two tai and is not counted repeatedly with the tai of a kong. |
| Menqing Zimo | 3 | 3 | All tiles were self-drawn. Does not score extra for Self-draw and Concealed Hand. |
| Pinghu | 2 | 2 | The hand has no honors, no pungs/kongs, is not a single-tile wait, and is not a self-drawn wait. Some require no flowers. |
| Three Concealed Pungs | 2 | 8 | The hand contains three sets of triplets (or concealed kongs) that have not yet been melded. |
| Four Concealed Pungs | 5 | 16 | The hand contains four sets of triplets (or concealed kongs) that have not yet been melded. (Three concealed pungs are not allowed to be counted.) |
| Five Concealed Pungs | 8 | 32 | The hand contains five sets of triplets (or concealed kongs) that have not yet been melded. (Three or four concealed pungs are not counted.) |
| All Pungs | 4 | 4 | The hand consists entirely of pungs (or kongs). |
| Half Flush | 4 | 8 | The hand consists only of numbered and honor tiles of the same suit. |
| Pure Flush | 8 | 32 | The hand contains only numbered cards of the same suit. |
| All Honors | 8 | 32 | The hand consists entirely of honor tiles. |
| Small Three Dragons | 4 | 4 | The hand contains two pungs of dragons and a pair of dragons. (Dragon Pungs are not counted.) |
| Big Three Dragons | 8 | 8 | The hand contains three pungs of dragons. (Dragon Pungs are not counted.) |
| Small Four Winds | 8 | 8 | The hand contains three pungs of winds and a pair of winds. (Wind Pungs are not counted.) |
| Big Four Winds | 16 | 16 | The hand contains four pungs of winds. (Wind Pungs are not counted.) |
| Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea | 8 | 32 | Collecting all 8 flowers. |
| Di Hu | 16 | 16 | After the tiles are dealt, if a player draws a tile without discarding any, the following rules apply: (No additional points may be awarded for a self-draw with a closed hand, a player waiting for a winning tile from the start, or a player waiting for a winning tile from the end.) |
| Tianhu | 24 | 64 | After the tiles are dealt, the dealer draws a winning tile without discarding any. (No additional points are awarded for a self-draw with a closed hand, a "heavenly hand," or a "ground hand.") |
| No Flowers or Honors | 2 | 3 | If the winning hand has no honors or flowers. |
| No Flowers | 0 | 1 | |
| Chicken Hand | 0 | 7 | |
| Seven for one | 0 | 16 | Collecting any 7 flowers, and then calling the 8th from an opponent. |
| Seven Pairs + 1 Pung | 0 | 16 | The hand consists of 5 pungs/kongs and a pair. |
| River Bottom Fishing | 0 | 0 | The winning tile was called from an opponent's discard. |
| Renhu | 0 | 0 | Winning off of East's first discard. East calling a closed Kong prior negates this win. |
| Ting | 0 | 0 | Declaring "Ting" when one away from winning. Player can only call "Mahjong". All drawn tiles that are not the winning tile must be discarded. |
| Di Ting (Earth Ting) | 4 | 0 | Declaring "Ting" within the first eight discards. No prior calls can be made by any player. (Concealed Hand and Ting are not counted.) |
| Tian Ting (Heaven Ting) | 8 | 0 | Declaring "Ting" upon drawing your first tile. No prior calls can be made by any player. (Concealed Hand, Ting, and Di Ting are not counted.) |
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