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Introducing Flowers, Seasons, Kongs and the Kong Box

Introducing Additional Doubles

Some Basic Rules

Introducing the Winds and some Scoring

Introducing Special Hands

Using Tallies

Playing the Goulash

General Strategy

Distribute the Tallies     Determine who is N, S, E, and W Wind     Determine the Prevailing Wind     Shuffle the Tiles     Build the Walls

Break into one Wall     The Kong Box     Deal out the Tiles     Select out any Flower or Season Tiles

Starting the Game     Collecting Sets     Special Hands     Obtaining a New Tile     Claiming the Discarded Tile     Flower and Season Tiles

Concealed Sets     Converting a Pung to a Kong     One for Mah-Jong     Robbing the Kong     Finishing the Game

The Goulash     The Game for 2 Players     The Game for 3 Players     The Game for 5 Players     Suggested Rule

Minor Tiles      Major Tiles     Honour Tiles     Bonus Tiles

Overview     Calculating the Basic Score     Doubling

Doubling Three Times     Scoring 500 Points     Scoring 1,000 Points

Mah-Jong Hands     Non-Winning Hands

Paying the Winner     Paying the Other Players     Doubling for East Wind and the Limit     Example Payments

Buying a Mah-Jong Set

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Origins of the game     Forms of the Game     Which rules to play by?

Further Information

Characters     Circles     Bamboos     Dragons     Winds     Flowers and Seasons     Plain Tiles     Jokers

Dice     Tallies     Wind Discs and the Tong Box     Racks

Introducing Additional Doubles

Introducing Flowers, Seasons, Kongs and the Kong Box

Some Basic Rules

Introducing the Winds and some Scoring

Introducing Special Hands

Using Tallies

Playing the Goulash

General Strategy

Distribute the Tallies     Determine who is N, S, E, and W Wind     Determine the Prevailing Wind     Shuffle the Tiles     Build the Walls

Break into one Wall     The Kong Box     Deal out the Tiles     Select out any Flower or Season Tiles

Starting the Game     Collecting Sets     Special Hands     Obtaining a New Tile     Claiming the Discarded Tile     Flower and Season Tiles

Concealed Sets     Converting a Pung to a Kong     One for Mah-Jong     Robbing the Kong     Finishing the Game

The Goulash     The Game for 2 Players     The Game for 3 Players     The Game for 5 Players     Suggested Rule

Minor Tiles      Major Tiles     Honour Tiles     Bonus Tiles

Overview     Calculating the Basic Score     Doubling

Doubling Three Times     Scoring 500 Points     Scoring 1,000 Points

Paying the Winner     Paying the Other Players     Doubling for East Wind and the Limit     Example Payments

A to L     M to Z

Characters     Circles     Bamboos     Dragons     Winds     Flowers and Seasons     Plain Tiles     Jokers

Dice     Tallies     Wind Discs and the Tong Box     Racks