Scoring variations

Payments to winner – Japanese scheme

This payoff scheme is used in Japanese versions of Mah Jong. If the winning tile is self-drawn, all pay normally; if the winning tile is a discard, discarder pays for all. East receives and pays (for himself only) double.

The Japanese payoff scheme accentuates the importance of careful discards. It is often advantageous, especially in the end of the deal, to sacrifice “good” tiles if you can be sure that they can be safely put away. In addition, the point differences between players tend to be bigger, because one unlucky discard may cost a player several hundreds, even thousands of points

	East	Discarder	Others	Total
East self-drawn	–	–	2	6
Non-East self-drawn	2	–	1	4
East on discard	–	6	0	6
Non-East on East's discard	–	4	0	4
Non-East on Non-East's discard	0	4	0	4

To enable the payment option:

Choose Preferences on the File menu.
Choose a customized rule preset from the Rule presets list.
Choose Payments under the Scoring section in the category tree of the Preferences dialog box.
Check the When the winning tile is a discard, only the discarder pays box.
From the Payments to Winner list, select Japanese.