Mahjong - Four Winds Rule Collection - Chinese Classical: Payments

Four Winds Rule Collection – Chinese Classical

6. Payments

Let us assume the following final scores for the players:

East	South	West	North
2 pts	46 pts	12 pts	192 pts

6.1 Payments to the winner

The losers pay the winner according to the final score of his hand, East receiving and paying the double. Accordingly, the winner (here North) is paid as follows:

384 pts	From East (192 pts doubled once)
192 pts	From South
192 pts	From West

768 pts	Total

6.2 Payments between the losers

In classical rules the losers settle the payments according to the difference of their final scores. East receives/pays double. Assuming the scores given above, the losers pay each other as follows:

East pays 88 points to South (46 – 2 = 44, doubled once)
East pays 20 points to West (12 – 2 = 10, doubled once)
South gets 88 points from East (46 – 2 = 44, doubled once)
South gets 34 points from West (46 – 12 = 34)
West gets 20 points from East (12 – 2 = 10, doubled once)
West pays 34 points to South (46 – 12 = 34)

6.3 Totals

The final payments are added to/reduced from players' total points:

	East gets from	South gets from	West gets from	North gets from
Total points before this hand	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000
East	–	88	20	384
South	–88	–	–34	192
West	–20	34	–	192
North	–384	–192	–192	–
Total points after this hand	1,508	1,930	1,794	2,768

The total of all points stays always the same – in this case, 8,000 points.

Note that if penalties are used, they are always added/subtracted at the final stage of scoring. E.g., if the rules specify penalty for faulty declarations worth 10 points and East has made one faulty declaration of Pung, the total points would be 10 points less for East and 10 points more for the winner (penalties are not doubled for East).

Note: If the rules apply a limit for the total score a player can score for his hand, the limit is applied to the final score, not the payments (and with loser payments, not to the difference of losers' final scores)! Accordingly, if the Limit is 1,000 points, the maximum payment an East winner can get for a hand is 6,000 points (2,000 points from each loser).

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