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Israeli Mah-Jongg Association
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
- single-source only one source was found; nothing independent confirms it
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 tiles or kards | 13, out on 14 | melded upon receipt | calculate points then apply doubles, with numbers varying greatly from other forms | all players |
- [1] SEARCHED AND NOT FOUND: a targeted search for the Israeli Mah-Jongg Association's own rules, in English and in Hebrew (איגוד המהג'ונג הישראלי), returned nothing about the association, its rules, tiles or scoring. Results were dominated by American mahjong and general Jewish-mahjong material, which is a different subject. No second source for this node was located, and the association's own site was not found
Reading it
Still only one source, and a second one has proved hard to find. Sloperama gives 144 tiles or kards, a 13-tile hand, flowers melded on receipt, all players paid, and scoring whose numbers vary greatly from other forms — the last being the only real hint at what distinguishes it. A targeted search in English and Hebrew found nothing about the association's own rules; the results were swamped by American mahjong and general Jewish-mahjong material, which is a different subject and should not be mistaken for this node. Anyone with Hebrew and a route to the association itself would likely resolve this quickly; web search alone does not.
In the tree
Descends from Western / British Empire style, as the source chart draws it.