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1. ADDED		2. MULTIPLIED		LIMIT HANDS*
Winning	+20	Lucky Sets		Big Three Dragons	3 of each Dragon (Center, Commence, White)
		Lucky triplet or four	x2
Sets		Double wind triplet or four	x4	Little Four Winds	3 of each of 3 Winds, pair of the fourth
Melded triplets:
Simples	+2	Concealed Hand		Big Four Winds	3 of each of 4 Winds
Terminals/honors	+4	With self-drawn tile	x2
Concealed triplets:				All Honors	Only Wind and Dragon Tiles
Simples	+4	Groups of Sets
Terminals/honors	+8	Four triplets, including fours		All Terminals	Only 1's and 9's – four triplets and a pair
Melded fours:		0, 1 or 2 concealed	x2
Simples	+8	3 concealed	x4	4 Concealed Triplets	All triplets hidden, pair may include discarded tile
Terminals/honors	+16	4 concealed	limit*
Concealed fours:		Three concealed triplets with one sequence	x2	Heavenly Hand	Dealer goes out with hand dealt
Simples	+16
Terminals/honors	+32			Earthly Hand	Non-dealer goes out on dealer's first discard or self-drawn in 1st turn
Pairs:		Ways of Going Out
Lucky tiles	+2	Last tile of wall	x2	Nine Gates	All same suit, three 1's, 2-8, three 9's, plus one tile which matches any of these. must be concealed except last tile
Double wind	+4	Last discarded tile	x2
		Robbing a kong	x2
		Supplement tile (after kong)	x2	Thirteen Orphans	Three different Dragons, four different Winds, three different 1's, three different 9's plus one tile which matches any of these. all but last tile must be concealed.
Last Tile of Hand		Special inclusions
Self-drawn	+2	Three consecutive sequences	x2
One-chance	+2
		No points	x2
Concealed Hand		Consistency		Terminals are 1 and 9. Simples are 2-8. Honors are Winds and Dragons. Lucky tiles are the Dragons, your own wind and the prevailing wind. Double Wind means your own wind when it is also prevailing. One Chance means the match of a pair, the middle of a sequence, the 3 of 1-2-3 or the 7 of 7-8-9. No Points means only the bare 20 was earned.
With discarded tile	+10	All simples	x2
		All terminals and honors	x2
		Terminal or honor in each set	x2
		One suit with honors	x2
		One suit only	x16
		Little three dragons	x2

3. PAYMENT				*A "Limit Hand" is worth 500 and is the maximum possible score before the multiplication at left.
	Multiple of final score to be paid by
How Game Ends	discarder	each player	dealer	Little Three Dragons is a winning hand containing 1 triplet of each of two Dragons and a pair of the third.
If dealer goes out self-drawn	---	2	---
If dealer goes out on a discard	6	---	---
If non-dealer goes out self-drawn	---	1	2
If non-dealer out out on a discard	4	---	---

Also ...

• An excellent book on this subject is Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win the Modern Game by Eleanor Noss Whitney.
• Or have a look at the popular The Mah Jong Player's Companion by Patricia Thompson and Betty Maloney.
• If a picture is worth a thousand words, have a look at The Game of Mah Jong Illustrated by Patricia A. Thompson and Betty Maloney (Illustrator)
• Sloperama Mah Jongg Zone
• See also more strategy ideas at https://boardgames.miningco.com/msub23.htm
• It's now possible to play Mah Jongg on-line at Yahoo.

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