Sets and pairs
Chow, pung, kong and the pair that finishes your hand.
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A winning hand is four sets plus one pair — the eyes. Fourteen tiles in total.
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A chow is three tiles in a row, in the same suit. This one is two, three, four of characters.
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A pung is three identical tiles. You can claim a pung from any player's discard.
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A kong is all four. After konging you draw a replacement tile, so a kong still counts as one set.
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A chow can only be claimed from the player directly to your left. Which tile completes three, four and — tap the missing one.
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- Winning shape
- 4 sets + 1 pair = 14 tiles.
- Chow
- 3 in a row, same suit. Left player only.
- Pung
- 3 identical tiles, any player's discard.
- Kong
- All 4 copies. Draw a replacement.
- Eyes
- The single pair that finishes the hand.