If you have ever sat down at a mahjong table in China and quietly hoped nobody would ask you to play — this site is for you. It teaches Sichuan mahjong 四川麻将 in English, from the first tile to the final score, with a real engine underneath that scores your hands exactly the way a table would.
Most English-language mahjong material covers the Cantonese or Japanese games. Sichuan mahjong stripped all of that away and ended up with something faster and stranger:
| It has | It does not have |
|---|---|
| Only 108 tiles — three suits, nothing else | No winds, no dragons, no flowers |
| A mandatory missing suit you must throw away 定缺 | No chow — you can never claim a discard to make a run |
| Battle to the end: up to three winners per round 血战到底 | No stopping when the first player wins |
| Penalties for stalling: ready check, flower pig, tax refund | No safe, patient way to sit out a round |
The result is a much cleaner test of skill: with no honours to hide behind, essentially the whole game is about shape efficiency — how fast you turn 13 random tiles into a winning hand. That also makes it unusually learnable, which is the point of this site.
The deck, declaring your missing suit, turn order, pong and kong, how a round ends.
Three suits, nine Chinese numerals, and the one tile drawn as a bird instead of a number.
The fan table, how bonuses stack, who pays on a self-draw versus a discard, with worked examples.
Where the game comes from, the teahouse table, table etiquette, and the variants you will meet.
A four-player table against three opponents, rendered on the GPU. A coaching strip along the bottom always tells you how far you are from winning, what you are waiting for, and which tile to discard — and why. Three difficulty levels.
Click in any hand and instantly see how far it is from 下叫 (ready), which tiles it is waiting on, which tiles would pull it forward, and which discard is best. The fastest way to build real intuition for hand shape.
Every tile face drawn as clean vector artwork, with real-size preview.
Every term in English and Chinese with pinyin, so you can follow a real table by ear.
Everything here is a static web page — no signup, no ads, no server, no account, and nothing to install. The coaching and scoring come from a deterministic rules engine, not from a language model guessing. The site documents one clearly specified ruleset so that the lessons, the table and the calculator can never disagree with each other — see Scoring for how the values were chosen and how local table rules differ.