Hand Card Summary & Format
Group 1: 2468 (Even Numbers)————————————————————————VALUES
Line 1: FF 222 444 666 888 (any 1 suit) X 25
Line 2: 222 4444 666 8888 (any 2 suits) X 25
Line 3: 22 444 66 888 DDDD (any 3 suits) X 30
Group 2: Like Numbers
Line 1: FF 1111 N E W S DDDD (any 1 suit, matching Dragons) X 25
Line 2: FF 1111 N E W S 1111 (any 2 suits) X 25
Line 3: FF 1111 1111 1111 (3 suits) X 25
Group 3: Consecutive Run
Line 1: 111 222 333 44 DDD (any 1 suit, any 4 cons. #’s, matching Dragons) X 25
Line 2: 111 2222 333 4444 (any 2 suits, any 4 consecutive #’s) X 25
Line 3: FFF 1111 2222 333 (3 suits, any 3 consecutive #’s) X 25
Group 4: 13579 (Odd Numbers)
Line 1: 11 333 5555 777 99 (any 1 suit) X 25
Line 2: 11 333 55 55 777 99 (any 2 suits) X 25
Line 3: FF 111 33 55 77 999 (3 suits) X 30
Group 5: Winds/Dragons
Line 1: NNNN EEEE WWWW SS X 25
Line 2: FF 111 DDD DDD DDD (any 3 like #’s, 3 suits) X 25
Line 3: FFFF EEE 1111 WWW (any 4 like #s, any 1 suit) X 25
Line 4: FFF DDDD DDD DDDD (3 suits) X 25
Line 5: FF NNN EEE WWW SSS C 30
Group 6: 369
Line 1: FFF 3333 6666 9999 (any 1 suit) X 25
Line 2: 333 6666 666 9999 (any 2 suits) X 25
Line 3: FF 333 666 999 DDD (any 1 suit, matching Dragons) X 25
Group 7: Singles & Pairs
Line 1: FF 11 22 33 44 55 66 (any 1 suit, any 6 consecutive #’s) C 50
Line 2: NN 11 22 33 44 55 66 (any 1 suit & North, any 6 consecutive #’s) C 50
Line 3: SS 11 22 33 44 55 66 (any 1 suit & South, any 6 consecutive #’s) C 50
Line 4: DD 11 22 33 44 55 66 (any 1 suit, any 6 cons. #’s, matching Dragons) C 50
Mah Jongg Hand Cards
If you don’t have a standard National Mah Jongg League, Inc. (NMJL) card (about $14 and includes NMJL membership, nationalmahjonggleague.org), you can use the Basic1 or any other custom MahJonggPro card available from the “Card Type” Menu. The Basic1 card is selected from the options display with the Card Type button. The Basic1 format and groups are like those on an NMJL card (only 7 instead of 9 to 10 groups).
Card Format: Each card line defines tile patterns of Mah Jongg-winning sets of 14 tiles. Each line has several tile sets (groups of the same tile) that are shown in the same color: blue, green, or red. A set can contain 1 (called a single), 2 (called a pair), or more tiles. All the tiles in a set are the same (note that N E W S is four sets of 1 tile each, not a set of 4 winds). Sets of 3 or more can include jokers (can be all jokers).
When sets need to be different suits (suits are dots, bams and craks), they are usually shown in different colors. Note that winds and flowers don’t have a suit, and they are typically shown in blue.
D’s are dragons. White dragons (Soap) are suit dots, green dragons are suit bams, and red dragons are suit craks. N is North wind, E is East wind, W is West wind, and S is South wind. F is a flower.
In the Like Numbers and Winds/Dragons groups, 1111 means any four numbers that are the same (from 1 to 9). In Consecutive Numbers and Singles/Pairs groups, “1111 2222” can be “1111 2222” or “2222 3333” or “3333 4444”, or any two consecutive numbers.
While not used in the Basic1 card: G=green dragon, R=Red dragon, and 0=white dragon used as a single tile set of the number zero (for year groups). Standard National Mah Jongg League year group sets, such as 2022, are 4 singles (2, 0, 2, and 2). Also, Singles and Pairs group patterns with multiple different numbers together look like a single set, but are multiple sets of all singles and/or pairs. At the right of each line, an “X” means the hand is open (also called eXposed)