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Malaysian 3-player
84 tiles, one suit
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. supporting 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
Sloper, Tom. "Malaysian Mah-Jongg." Sloperama. canonical checked 2026-09-18
https://www.sloperama.com/mahjongg/malaysian.html
chart’s note The 84-tile three-player and 164-tile four-player Malaysian games.
Also cited on: Malaysian 4-player · bibliography #5
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
- partial sources agree on some points but disagree or say nothing on others
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] | 84 (one suit, honours, 16 flowers, 4 jokers); a 108-tile variant also exists | 13, out on 14 | 8 flowers/seasons, 4 animals (Singapore flowers), 4 faces, 4 Fly (jokers) | count the fan, convert to points | all players are paid, depending on what they hold |
- [1] Vincent Cheah describes the 84-tile three-player game
- [2] Sloperama's dedicated Malaysian page, fetched separately, covers the same 84-tile game
- [1] the abbreviated overview splits this into Malaysian 3-Player 'A' (84 tiles, one suit) and Malaysian 3-Player 'B' (108 tiles, details unknown). The chart carries only the 84-tile game
Reading it
The 84-tile one-suit game is confirmed with a full component breakdown. But Sloperama also records a second three-player Malaysian game of 108 tiles, which the chart does not carry at all, so the node covers only one of two documented forms.
In the tree
Descends from Nanyang variants, as the source chart draws it.