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Vietnamese classical
160 tiles, 8 jokers
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, Singapore style, Filipino style 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] | 160 | 13, out on 14 | includes flowers/seasons, 8 kings/queens, and 8 jokers | based on the 19 ways of going Out | winner only |
| [2] | 160 | — | eight specialised jokers and eight extra flowers | — | — |
- [1] no books in English
- [2] independently gives the same 160-tile total the chart and Sloperama give
Reading it
Two independent sources give 160 tiles built from eight jokers and eight extra flowers, matching the chart exactly. Sloperama adds the eight kings and queens and the nineteen ways of going out, which is the feature that ties the classical and modern forms together.
In the tree
Descends from Nanyang variants, as the source chart draws it.
Descends into
- Vietnamese modern — 176+ tiles, 24+ jokers