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MCR scoring reference
Sources
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Mahjong Wiki. "Chinese Official (MCR) Overview." cross-check checked 2026-09-18
http://mahjong.wikidot.com/rules:chinese-official-overview
chart’s note 1998 release; the 1996 PRC push for sport recognition; Cantonese objections around the handover.
Also cited on: MCR / Chinese official · bibliography #9
World Mahjong Organization. Mahjong Competition Rules, English edition. canonical checked 2026-09-18
http://mahjong-europe.org/portal/images/docs/mcr_EN.pdf
chart’s note The 1998 ruleset itself.
Also cited on: MCR / Chinese official · bibliography #20
Sloper, Tom. "FAQ 22: Chinese Official Scoring Explained." Sloperama. supporting
https://sloperama.com/mjfaq/mjfaq22.html
chart’s note Confirms the 1998 People's Sports Publishing House edition of the competition rules.
Also cited on: MCR / Chinese official · bibliography #6
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
- documented a published ruleset or rule description exists and is cited
- 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] | — | — | — | pattern-based, minimum 8 points, no maximum | — |
| [2] | 144 pieces in total, of which 108 are numbered suit tiles across three suits | 13 | one of each flower tile, eight in all; a drawn flower is exposed, declared 'hua', and replaced from the back end of the wall | a hand worth less than 8 points is a false mahjong: the declarer forfeits 10 points to each of the other three players and may not win that hand | — |
- [2] the World Mahjong Organization's English-edition Mahjong Competition Rules PDF was fetched successfully through the Wayback Machine (374 KB), confirming the cited document exists at the cited URL
- [1] the wiki's MCR infobox names a 2006 rulebook rather than the 1998 edition the chart cites
- [2] read directly from the World Mahjong Organization's English-edition PDF. Its contents run from tenets and competition conduct through fan values, scoring, rankings, fouls and appeals
Reading it
Primary-sourced. The rulebook itself was fetched and read: 144 tiles of which 108 are suit tiles, a 13-tile hand, eight flowers replaced from the back of the wall, and an 8-point minimum enforced by a 10-point forfeit to each opponent for declaring below it. That matches the wiki's infobox and Sloperama's summary, and puts a number on the penalty neither of them gives.
In the tree
Descends from MCR / Chinese official, as the source chart draws it.