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Singapore style
148 tiles, animal 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. 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
Wikipedia. "Mahjong." cross-check checked 2026-09-18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong
AI summary The main article's regional-variations section, which describes most branches of this tree independently of the chart's own sources.
Also cited on: Proto-mahjong, Chinese classical, Hong Kong old style, Taiwanese style, Filipino style, Vietnamese classical and 7 more · bibliography #54
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] | 148 (basic set plus 4 animal flowers) | 13, out on 14 | game requires 12 flowers: the 8 regular plus 4 animal flowers | count the fan (doubles) and convert to points | winner only |
| [2] | — | — | four animal bonus tiles, named as cat, mouse, cockerel and centipede | — | — |
- [1] relatively few special hands; book: AMAZING MAHJONG by Celia Ching
- [2] groups Singaporean and Malaysian mahjong together as sharing much with Hong Kong mahjong, and describes payouts midway through a hand when conditions such as a kong are met
Reading it
Two independent sources agree on the animal tiles that define the variant, and Wikipedia names all four: cat, mouse, cockerel and centipede. Sloperama's 148 total and requirement of all twelve flowers is consistent with that. Wikipedia's mid-hand payout rule is a structural feature neither the chart nor Sloperama records.
In the tree
Descends from Nanyang variants, as the source chart draws it.