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Shenzhen style
kongs only, poorly documented
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
- single-informant the whole entry rests on one report from one person
- Evidence
- conflicting sources disagree materially, or one source contradicts itself
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] | unknown | unknown whether 13 or 16 or another number | unknown | unknown | unknown |
- [1] winning hand, if Sloper recalls correctly, must be PUNGS only (no chows); from conversations with author Dragon Chang
- [1] CONTRADICTION WITHIN ONE SOURCE: the abbreviated overview on the same page reads 'Shenzhen Style (played with KONGS - no pungs or chows - details not available at present)', while the detailed section reads 'Winning hand (if I recall correctly) must be PUNGS only (no chows)'. The chart follows the kongs wording
Reading it
The source contradicts itself on the same page: the abbreviated list says the game is played with kongs and no pungs or chows, the detailed entry says the winning hand must be pungs only, hedged with 'if I recall correctly'. The chart follows the kongs wording without flagging the conflict. Tile count, hand size, flowers, scoring and payout are all recorded as unknown.
In the tree
Descends from Mainland regionals, as the source chart draws it.
Caveat from the source chart
Rests on a single informant report.