Game Play

Step 1: Shuffle the tiles

Step 2: Building of Walls

  • Players sitting on the East and West Seat will form 2 sets of 19 tiles while the remaining 2 will form 2 sets of 18 tiles.
  • After stacking, move the tiles closer to the center.

Step 3: Rolling of Dices

  • The dealer, which is the player on the East Seat, will roll the dice to determine whose pile to cut.

Step 4: Determine which pile to cut

  • From the dealer, count in a anti-clockwise direction to the number rolled in Step 3.

For Example, if the dealer rolled a 6. From the dealer count anti-clockwise to the number 6. In this case it wil be the player sitting on the South seat.

Step 5: Splitting the pile

  • The player chosen in Step 4 will count the number of tile from his pile from right to left until the number determined in Step 3.

For Example, the player in the South seat will count 6 from the right and place the 6th stack of tiles on top of the 5th stack of tiles.

  • The right pile will be the Flower Pile and the left pile will be the Main Pile.

Step 6: Drawing from Main Pile

  • From the dealer, each player will take 2 stacks(4 tiles) in an anti-clockwise direction from the main pile. This action will repeat until each player have 12 tiles
  • Then each player starting from the dealer will take 1 tile from the main pile. By the end of this step, each player should have 13 titles each.

If you know how to do 跳牌, then dealer can draw 14 tiles while the others draw 13. If not, the method shown here will work also.

Step 7: Replenish Flower Tiles

  • All players will check their 13 tiles for any flowers and animals and declare them if they have it. Starting from the dealer, in a anti-clockwise direction, players will take the number of flower tiles they have declared from the Flower Pile.
  • If players declare another flower or animal when they replenish the flower tiles, they have to wait until the player on the North Seat replenishes his flower before starting another round of replenishing flowers, starting from the dealer again.

Step 8: Draw and Discard

  • Dealer will first draw a tile from the main pile and discard an unwanted pile.
  • For every discarded tile, other players may Chi, Pong or Kang the discarded tile. If they do, they do not have to draw a tile and they will discard a tile.
  • If no one wants the discarded tile, the player to the right of the player who discarded the tile will draw a tile from the main pile and discard a unwanted tile.
  • If player draw a flower or animal from the main pile, they will declare the tile and draw from the Flower Pile before discarding a unwanted tile.
  • This will repeat until there is a winner or the round draw.

Step 9: Round End

  • One round will end when either of these scenarios occurs
    1. Dealer declares a Winning Hand
    2. Player that is not a dealer declares a Winning Hand
    3. When there is only 15 tiles left resulting in a Draw
    4. When a player declares a Fake Win

Step 10a: Round end with scenarios 1 and 3

  • There will be no changes to the seats.

Step 10b: Round end with scenario 2

  • The East wind will shift to the player to the right of the initial East Wind and they will become the dealer. The rest of the winds will shift accordingly.

Step 10c: Round end with scenario 4

  • If dealer declare a fake win, it will be Step 10b
  • If player other than dealer fake win, it will be Step 10a

Step 11: Repeat

  • Repeat from Step 1 again until all 4 players become dealer 4 times and when the wind changes 4 times.