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Malaysian 3-player
84 tiles, one suit
Cross-comparison
partial — sources agree on some points and are silent or divided on others
| Source | Tiles | Hand | Flowers | Scoring | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | 84 (one suit, honours, 16 flowers, 4 jokers); a 108-tile variant also exists | 13, out on 14 | 8 flowers/seasons, 4 animals (Singapore flowers), 4 faces, 4 Fly (jokers) | count the fan, convert to points | all players are paid, depending on what they hold |
- [1] Vincent Cheah describes the 84-tile three-player game
- [2] Sloperama's dedicated Malaysian page, fetched separately, covers the same 84-tile game
- [1] the abbreviated overview splits this into Malaysian 3-Player 'A' (84 tiles, one suit) and Malaysian 3-Player 'B' (108 tiles, details unknown). The chart carries only the 84-tile game
Reading it
The 84-tile one-suit game is confirmed with a full component breakdown. But Sloperama also records a second three-player Malaysian game of 108 tiles, which the chart does not carry at all, so the node covers only one of two documented forms.
Sources
Sloper, Tom. "FAQ 2b: Identifying a Mah-Jongg Variant." Sloperama. supporting checked 2026-09-18
Tile counts, hand sizes, flower handling and scoring for roughly 50 named variants. Primary source for most leaf nodes in this chart.
https://www.sloperama.com/mjfaq/mjfaq02b.html
Also cited on: Chinese archaic, Chinese pre-classical, Chinese classical, Shanghai / Hong Kong new style, Hong Kong old style, Modern HKOS and 43 more · bibliography #1
Sloper, Tom. "Malaysian Mah-Jongg." Sloperama. canonical checked 2026-09-18
The 84-tile three-player and 164-tile four-player Malaysian games.
https://www.sloperama.com/mahjongg/malaysian.html
Also cited on: Malaysian 4-player · bibliography #5