Three Golds

Every Hong Kong faan

Most Hong Kong tables play 3 faan to win and cap a hand at 13, and Three Golds does too. Yours may use other numbers; the scorer lets you set them. Tap a pattern for what it is and a hand that scores it.

1
All Chows

All Chows 平糊 · 1 faan
Four Chows and a pair.

Mixed Terminals

Mixed Terminals 混么九 · 1 faan
Only 1s, 9s, winds and dragons. No Chow fits, so it always comes with All Pungs (4 faan together) or All Pairs (5).

Dragon Pung each

Dragon Pung 箭刻 · 1 faan each
A Pung or Kong of 中, 發 or 白.

Seat Wind

Seat Wind · 1 faan
A Pung or Kong of your own seat's wind.

You sit South in the East round.

Round Wind

Round Wind · 1 faan
A Pung or Kong of the round's wind. When it's your seat's wind too, it scores both.

You sit South in the East round.

Concealed Hand

Concealed Hand 門前清 · 1 faan
No Chow, Pung or shown Kong before the win. A concealed Kong keeps it.

Self-draw

Self-draw 自摸 · 1 faan
You draw the winning tile yourself.

Rob the Kong

Rob the Kong 搶槓 · 1 faan
Win on the tile another player adds to their Pung to make a Kong.

Another player adds a 5 bamboo to their Pung; you take it for 3-4-5.

Kong Replacement

Kong Replacement 槓上開花 · 1 faan
You Kong, and the replacement tile you draw wins. Self-draw counts too.

Last Tile

Last Tile 海底撈月 · 1 faan
You win on the last tile drawn from the wall. Self-draw counts too.

No Flowers

No Flowers 無花 · 1 faan
No flower or season beside your name at the win.

Seat Flower each

Seat Flower 正花 · 1 faan each
The flower and the season with your seat's number: East 1, South 2, West 3, North 4. Other seats' flowers score nothing.

2
Flower Set

Flower Set 一台花 · 2 faan
All four flowers, or all four seasons. Takes the place of that set's seat flower.

3
All Pungs

All Pungs 對對糊 · 3 faan
Four Pungs or Kongs and a pair, no Chows.

Mixed One Suit

Mixed One Suit 混一色 · 3 faan
One suit, plus winds or dragons.

4
All Pairs

All Pairs 七對 · 4 faan
Seven different pairs, nothing called. Four of one tile isn't two pairs.

5
Small Three Dragons

Small Three Dragons 小三元 · 5 faan
Pungs of two dragons and a pair of the third. The 5 faan include Dragon Pung for both dragons.

6
Small Four Winds

Small Four Winds 小四喜 · 6 faan
Pungs of three winds and a pair of the fourth. Your seat and round wind still add on top.

7
Pure One Suit

Pure One Suit 清一色 · 7 faan
Every tile in one suit, no winds or dragons. Takes the place of Mixed One Suit.

8
Four Concealed Pungs

Four Concealed Pungs 坎坎糊 · 8 faan
Four Pungs, none called and none finished by a discard. Includes All Pungs and the concealed faan.

Big Three Dragons

Big Three Dragons 大三元 · 8 faan
Pungs of all three dragons.

10limit
Nine Gates

Nine Gates 九子連環 · 10 faan
One suit, nothing called: 1-1-1, 2 to 8, 9-9-9, and one more of that suit.

All Honors

All Honors 字一色 · 10 faan
Only winds and dragons.

All Terminals

All Terminals 清么九 · 10 faan
Only 1s and 9s.

13limit
Thirteen Orphans

Thirteen Orphans 十三么 · 13 faan
One of each 1 and 9 in every suit, each wind and each dragon, and one more of any of them.

Big Four Winds

Big Four Winds 大四喜 · 13 faan
Pungs of all four winds.

Four Kongs

Four Kongs 十八羅漢 · 13 faan
Four Kongs and a pair.

Heavenly Hand

Heavenly Hand 天糊 · 13 faan
The dealer's dealt hand is already a win.

Earthly Hand

Earthly Hand 地糊 · 13 faan
Win on the dealer's first discard, with no call before it.

Faan add up: All Pungs (3) with a Dragon Pung (1) is 4. A pattern counts once: Small Three Dragons includes Dragon Pung for both its dragons, Pure One Suit replaces Mixed One Suit, and All Pairs is concealed already.

Limit hands score a set value and never add to other faan. A 10 scores its patterns instead when they come to more.

Reading a card: the examples sit East in the East round, so 梅 and 春, the 1s, are your flowers. Where how you won is the point, the winning tile is circled.

Faan to points

faanpoints
01
12
24
38
416
524
632
faanpoints
748
864
996
10128
11192
12256
13384

0 to 2 (dim): what the scorer fills in for tables that win below 3. Three Golds needs 3.

These are the values Three Golds scores. Tables differ on a few, and the scorer takes your table's numbers. The full rules, flowers and who pays: Hong Kong rules.

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