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India / Mumbai style
rotating round rules
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
- corroborated two or more independent sources agree on the facts that define this variant
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] | 144 | 13, out on 14 | melded instantly when received | count points for pungs/kongs etc., then double | all players earn points |
- [1] each round uses different rules: one permits chicken hands, another requires special hands, another is a goulash requiring all pungs in one suit, the fourth is dealer's choice with wild tiles; in some rounds a player can buy a discard. Sloper corrected his own earlier assumption that this was the same as British/Western after visiting Mumbai in March 2009
Reading it
The rotating round rules that distinguish this node are confirmed in detail, each round with different conditions. The author also notes that he corrected his earlier belief that it was the same as British Western, after visiting Mumbai in 2009.
In the tree
Descends from Western / British Empire style, as the source chart draws it.