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Vietnamese modern
176+ tiles, 24+ 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] | 176 or more large tiles | 13, out on 14 | flowers/seasons, 8 kings/queens, and 24 or more jokers | based on the 19 ways of going Out | winner only |
| [2] | 176 or 184 | — | — | — | — |
- [2] describes the modern variant as triplicating or quadruplicating the jokers, which gives 176 or 184 rather than Sloperama's open-ended '176 or more'
Reading it
Two independent sources agree, and Wikipedia is the more precise: triplicating or quadruplicating the eight jokers gives exactly 176 or 184 tiles, where Sloperama says 176 or more and the chart says 176+.
In the tree
Descends from Vietnamese classical, as the source chart draws it.