Game Rules

i-Mahjong.com offers the "classic" version, which in the 1920's swept the world as the games craze of the times and still is widely played. The International version is played in the World Championship.

Shenzhen - Bang Bang Mahjong

Basic Premises

Bet levels represented as X and Y, where Y is twice X

The winner always takes the East position, with all other players assigned their corresponding seating position.

Whenever a player draws a tile and extends an already declared pong to a kong, all other players pay the amount X to the player who performs the pong-to-kong.

Whenever a self-drawn kong is declared, all other players pay the amount Y to the player who declares the kong.

Self-drawn kongs are always declared immediately.

Players are not able to claim discarded tiles to complete a chow unless it is used to declare MAHJONG!

Whenever a player claims a discarded tile to declare a kong, the discarding player pays the amount X+Y to the player who claims the discarded tile.

When a player declares Mahjong on self-draw, a lucky tile is automatically drawn for an additional lucky draw bonus.

If any player at the table has less than 3Y in cash on the table, the game ends.

Going Mahjong

A player can declare Mahjong with a hand consisting of four sets and any pair, with the 13 orphans, or with seven pairs.

For a win on self-draw, all other players pay the winner Y each.

For a win on discard, only the discarder pays Y but if a player wins by robbing a kong, the robbed player pays for the other players also.

Lucky Draw (Horse)

If a player declares mahjong on self-draw apart from robbing the kong, that player draws the next tile from the wall. If the winner is East and draws an East, 1, 5 or 9, the other players must pay the winner an additional Y. The same applies for South with South, red dragon, 2 or 6; West with West, green dragon, 3 or 7; North with North, white dragon, 4 or 8.

Special Hands

There are no special hands in Shenzhen Mahjong.

Scoring

There is no scoring system in Shenchen Mahjong, cash settlements occur in-game.