Frequently Asked Questions

Dragon Tiles

• The White Dragon or “Soap” tile is part of the Dots Suit and has the number value of 0 or 10 depending on how it is used in the hand.
• The Red Dragon tile is part of the Cracks Suit and has the number value of 0 or 10 depending on how it is used in the hand.
• The Green Dragon tile is part of the Bams Suit and has the number value of 0 or 10 depending on how it is used in the hand.

Joker Tiles

• You can make a Quad or Triple set of all jokers to take the place of a set of one of the numbers in your sequence.
• A joker can never take the place of a flower tile
• A joker can never be used in a Pair set
• A joker can never be used in a Singles set.

Joker or Blank Swaps

You can call a tile, perform Joker or Blank swaps, then declaring Mahjong all on the same turn. However in this case you can only call a tile for a legal exposure: a Triple or Quad set of numbers or winds, or a Triple or higher set of Flowers). If you intend to do a Joker or Blank swap on your turn, you cannot call a tile for a Pair set or single tile in a Singles Set for Mahjong and then perform the swap, because your hand is not ready for Mahjong at the time you call the tile (before swaps).

Seven Pairs

If your hand has seven pairs, you earn 1 point for Seven Pairs and 1 point for Big Sets.

Concealed

If you made no exposures during the round you score 1 point for a Concealed hand. If you call the last tile for Mahjong, but made no exposures before that, your hand is still considered Concealed and you earn the point.

Jokerless

If you are playing with jokers in the game, score 1 point for any Mahjong hand that has no jokers in it at the time Mahjong is declared. If you made exposed sets with a joker, but someone performed a joker swap to remove the joker at some point, you still earn 1 point for a Jokerless hand if there are no jokers in your hand at the time you declare Mahjong.

Sunrise Hand

Earn 1 point for a Sunrise Hand if you declare a valid Mahjong hand during your first turn. Your first turn is the turn where you first take a tile to start your turn, either by drawing a face-down tile or calling a discarded tile. Another way to think of it is that you declare Mahjong before you discard a tile during a round.

Sunset Hand

Earn 1 point for a Sunset Hand if you declare a valid Mahjong hand on the last possible turn of the game. This can happen in two ways:

1. It is your turn, you draw the last remaining facedown tile after all other tiles have been discarded, and declare Mahjong.
2. After the last remaining facedown tile is drawn and that player discards a tile, and you call that tile to complete a Mahjong hand.