3TilesThe 34 basic mahjong tiles are presented here. A full set of mahjong tiles contains four identical tiles of each of these. | 3TilesNothing special, the World Riichi Championship Rules can be played with any standard mahjong set. The next chapters are pretty much a lot of boring standard stuff with few key-points: • No red fives. • Start with 30,000 points. • To draw seat winds, shuffle E, S, W, N tiles and pick one. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.1The three suitsThere are three suits; each has tiles numbered from one to nine:
The one of bamboo is often decorated with a bird, the design of which often varies between mahjong sets. The ones and nines are called terminal tiles. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.2The honoursIn addition to the suit tiles, there are seven different honour tiles: four winds and three dragons. The winds are shown in the order: East-South-West-North. The dragons are shown in the order: Red-White-Green. The design of the White dragon varies between mahjong sets; usually it is either a blank tile or a blue frame is depicted.
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3.3Additional tilesWith four of each of the above tiles, a mahjong set consists of 136 tiles. Sometimes mahjong sets contain further tiles: flowers, seasons, red fives or joker tiles, which are not used in World Riichi Championship Rules. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.4Additional equipmentMahjong sets often have markers for indicating the prevailing wind and sticks used for keeping score and used also for continuance counters and riichi bets. The set should also come with at least two dice. | 3.4Additional equipmentScoring sticks sets generally don't include 500 points sticks. I'll advise you to add some, because they made payments easier. Suggested repartitions per player:
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