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Sichuan 72-tile game
per Dragon Chang
Cross-comparison
single-source — only one source was found; nothing independent confirms it
| Source | Tiles | Hand | Flowers | Scoring | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | 72 (bams and dots only) | 7, out on 8 (some players hold 10, out on 11) | none | unknown | unknown |
- [1] from conversations with author Dragon Chang; a very quick gambling game. Sloperama notes this contradicts the Chengdu account it also carries
Reading it
72 tiles, bams and dots only, a 7-tile hand winning on 8. Sloperama attributes it solely to Dragon Chang and itself flags that it differs from the other Sichuan account on the same page. The chart is right to carry it as a separate node rather than merging it.
Sources
Sloper, Tom. "FAQ 2b: Identifying a Mah-Jongg Variant." Sloperama. canonical 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
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