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Welcome to the world of Mahjong!!!

Mahjong is an ancient game of skill and strategy, and also known as a Game of Thousand Intelligences.

It's played with tiles and traces its origins to China. The game became popular in the west during the early twentieth century. It is fast catching the fancy of ladies in India too. This blog strives to bring together people who play this fascinating game, put together rules and to put together some fun trivia !



The Goulash

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GOULASH

The aim of the goulash hand is to make all pungs (or kongs) and a pair in one suit only.
a) Count minimum of 20, which is 160 when multiplied by 8 and for east it is doubled to 320
b) In case of honours, 3 doubles must be complete with a pair/pung in suit and count must be aminimum of 20.

Counting for Goulash

  • 4 for every garden
  • 2 for ordinary pung open
  • 4 for ordinary pung closed
  • 8 for ordinary kong open
  • 16 for ordinary kong closed
  • 4 for honour pung open
  • 8 for honour pung closed
  • 16 for honour kong open
  • 32 for honour kong closed


Counting for Doubles:

  • Your own garden gives you a double in honour hands or doubles your count in non-honour hands
  • Pung of wind/ wind of the round gives you a double.
  • Pungs of 3 winds give one double.
  • Pung of each of the dragons give a double. 
  • Pungs of 3 dragons gives another double.
  • 3 hidden pungs give 1 double.
  • 3 kongs give a double.
  • All honours with pung in suit of only 1/9 of any one suit gives a double.


Goulash Game play:

Before actual play starts, it's time for The Charleston...
It is an exchange of tiles that gives each player a chance to improve her hand by passing unwanted tiles face down to other players.

  • East first exchanges right with South while West does so with North
  • Then East with West and South with North
  • Finally east with North and South with West
  • East decides to dot/wall for exchange of 3 tiles at one time. This must be done 3 times. East can stop after the first time, but if a second one is done then third change is mandatory.

(No one touches the wall they have made in front, or the playing wall or the garden wall.)
Since East has 14 tiles, she starts the game by discarding a tile. In this round, the discarded tile can be claimed by any player if she is making a pung or a kong with it; but this pung or kong has to be displayed on top of the rack for everyone to see. She then discards a tile which can again be claimed by anyone.
 But if tile is not called (claimed by any players), the turn continues to the next player on the right. The next player draws a tile from the wall. The tile is taken from where the breaking of the walls was left off. When a player draws a tile from the wall, she takes the top tile if the next tile in the stack is two tiles high; otherwise, she takes the bottom tile.
The player either decides to discard the drawn tile or to place it in her hand and then discard another tile from her hand. The name of the discarded tile is announced and placed face up in the center of the table. Caution must be used here since each tile you discard is seen by the other players and it won't be long before they figure out what kind of hand you are trying to build.
(Note: players may miss their turns if a player claims a discarded tile.)
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