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Malaysian 4-player
164 tiles, 24 flowers
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 3-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
- 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] | 164 (24 flowers, 4 jokers) | 13, out on 14 | 16 flowers/seasons, 8 animals, 4 jokers | 50 points for Out, then points for pungs, kongs, pairs, flowers, then double | all players are paid, depending on what they hold |
- [1] winning hand must be All Chow, All Pung, or Half/Full Flush
- [2] Sloperama's dedicated Malaysian page covers the same 164-tile game
Reading it
164 tiles and 24 flowers match exactly, from two Sloperama pages. The winning-hand restriction to All Chow, All Pung or a flush is a substantive rule the chart omits.
In the tree
Descends from Nanyang variants, as the source chart draws it.