When a player creates a set of hand or "mahjong", he wins the game. A winning hand consists of four sets of chow, pung, or kong, and a pair.
Mahjong Game Rules : Mahjong game Waiting to Win
A player with one tile short of winning the mahjong game is considered to have a "ready hand". This is called "waiting" because that player is basically waiting for certain tiles to complete his hand. This is important Mahjong Game Rule.
Mahjong Game Rules : Mahjong game Round
In Mahjong Game , there are 4 rounds: East, South, West and North Round.
Within each round, the winds / seating position will rotate as follows: East, South, West, North (counterclockwise). This also happens in the event of a dead hand (where nobody wins).
Mahjong Game Rules : Mahjong game Drawing tiles |
| The Mahjong Game is now ready and new tiles will be taken from the "Wall" where the drawing of the initial hand ended. Mahjong Game Rules consist in: The dealer (or East) starts the Mahjong game by discarding a tile face up in the center of the table. South then draws and discards a tile, followed by West and North. Thus, the draw goes counter-clockwise around the table, unless a tile is thrown which a player can claim. In that case, the turn jumps to the respective player's position. We'll go into more details in the Game Play section. |
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