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Fuzhou style
132 tiles
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] | 132; one honour removed (probably White) | 13, out on 14 | none | count the points | winner only |
- [1] from a newsgroup post by Jesse, May 28 and June 1-2 2003
- [1] CONTRADICTION WITHIN ONE SOURCE: the abbreviated overview describes Fuzhou as using no flower tiles, with honours treated like flowers as in the Filipino game and a Japanese dora-type tile as joker. That description matches the detailed FUJIAN entry, not the detailed Fuzhou entry, which says 132 tiles with one honour removed and no flowers or jokers
Reading it
The detailed entry gives 132 tiles with one honour removed and no flowers or jokers. The abbreviated list on the same page describes Fuzhou as having honours treated like flowers and a dora-type joker, which is the detailed Fujian entry's description, not Fuzhou's. One of the two is contaminated, and there is no second source to break the tie.
In the tree
Descends from Mainland regionals, as the source chart draws it.