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Pong
Malaya, 120 tiles, Dobree 1955
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] | 120 (3 suits and all dragon tiles) | 11, win on 12 | none | points for characteristics of the hand | winner only |
- [1] four threesomes only, no pair; threesomes are pungs and knitted pungs only, no chows. Book: Dobree, Gambling Games of Malaya, 1955. Existence revealed by Thierry Depaulis, newsgroup, 2 May 2006
Reading it
120 tiles and the Dobree 1955 attribution match. The source adds the defining structure: four threesomes and no pair, pungs and knitted pungs only, an 11-tile hand winning on 12. That is a far more distinctive game than the chart's one-line entry suggests.
In the tree
Descends from Nanyang variants, as the source chart draws it.