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Bashi-Bashi
3-player, Philippine casinos
Sources
The documents this entry rests on, as published. Each can be opened and checked; nothing in this part is anybody’s reading of them.
Sloper, Tom. "FAQ 2b: Identifying a Mah-Jongg Variant." Sloperama. canonical checked 2026-09-18
https://www.sloperama.com/mjfaq/mjfaq02b.html
chart’s note Tile counts, hand sizes, flower handling and scoring for roughly 50 named variants. Primary source for most leaf nodes in this chart.
Also cited on: Chinese archaic, Late Qing style, Chinese pre-classical, Chinese classical, Shanghai / Hong Kong new style, Hong Kong old style and 44 more · bibliography #1
Analysis
Written by an AI model from the sources above. It is a reading of them, not a source in its own right: every figure in it points back to a numbered source, and where the two disagree, the source is right.
Assessment
- Confidence
- catalogued listed in a variant catalogue with tile counts and hand sizes, but no rules text verified
- Evidence
- conflicting sources disagree materially, or one source contradicts itself
Cross-comparison
What each source was read to say, set side by side. The numbers are the sources above.
| Source | Tiles | Hand | Flowers | Scoring | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | version A: 144; version B: 112 (craks omitted except 1C, 5C, 9C) | A: probably 13, win on 14; B: 13, win on 14 | none in either; A has 8 red fives, B has 6 red fives | A: 'simplified and streamlined'; B: count the points | A: unknown; B: winner only |
- [1] three-player game that originated in casinos in the Philippines, BASED ON JAPANESE MODERN AND FILIPINO RULES; version B reported by Vladimir, April 2015
Reading it
Sloperama documents two incompatible games under this name: version A with 144 tiles and 8 red fives, version B with 112 tiles and 6 red fives, differing also on scoring and payout. The chart carries one undifferentiated node. Sloperama also says Bashi-Bashi is based on Japanese modern AND Filipino rules, while the chart descends it from Filipino alone.
In the tree
Descends from Filipino style, as the source chart draws it.