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Siamese Mah Jongg
two-handed, 2015
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. cross-check 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
Grad, Gladys. Siamese Mah Jongg. mahjongg.org. canonical checked 2026-09-18
chart’s note The two-handed variant, 2015.
Only cited here · bibliography #23
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
- 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.
- [1] special two-handed rules by Gladys Grad, 2015; the name plays on 'Siamese twins'. Two players each play two hands on specially designed two-tiered racks. Primarily designed with American mah-jongg in mind, but the concept can be applied to any variant
- [2] the cited site was read through the Wayback Machine. The archived homepage is about Mah Jongg Master Points, American tournaments and prizes, and does not describe Siamese Mah Jongg at all, so the citation does not currently support the node's rules claims
Reading it
Sloperama gives the substance: Gladys Grad, 2015, two players each playing two hands on two-tiered racks, with the concept applicable to any variant. The chart's own canonical source for the node, mahjongg.org, does not corroborate it: its archived homepage is a tournament and Master Points site that does not mention Siamese Mah Jongg. The variant is attested, but by the other source, not the cited one.
In the tree
Descends from American mah jongg, as the source chart draws it.