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Tui Dao Hu

multiple winners

Caveat from the source chart

Rests on a single informant report.

Cross-comparison

conflicting — sources disagree materially, or one source contradicts itself

SourceTilesHandFlowersScoringPayout
[1]unknown; unknown whether flowers are usedpresumed 13, out on 14—not clearly defined at maque.games; kongs may add points—
  • [1] twelve ways of going out; more than one player can win; tip from Joe S., 16 January 2021
  • [2] maque.games page reachable only through the Wayback Machine from this environment; brief English description
  • [3] MEANING CONFLICT: gives 推倒胡 (tui dao hu) as the Mandarin term for a SCORELESS HAND, the Cantonese equivalent being 雞糊 (gai wu), in a passage about variants where scoreless hands are permitted. That is a general scoring term, not the name of a regional variant

Reading it

The name may not denote a variant at all. Wikipedia gives 推倒胡 as the ordinary Mandarin term for a scoreless or chicken hand, paired with Cantonese 雞糊, in a discussion of variants that allow such hands to win. Sloperama, working from the same maque.games page, guessed the meaning as 'push down hu' and recorded a variant with twelve ways of going out and multiple winners. Both can be true, since a ruleset can be named after the scoreless hand it permits, but the chart presents as a distinct regional style what at least one source treats as a common noun. Everything else about the node remains unknown: no tile count, no hand size, no scoring.

Sources

  1. 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

  2. maque.games. "Tui Dao Hu." canonical checked 2026-09-18

    Twelve ways of going out; more than one player may win.

    https://maque.games/post/323/

    Only cited here · bibliography #24

  3. Wikipedia. "Scoring in Mahjong." cross-check checked 2026-09-18

    Comparative scoring across Hong Kong, Chinese Classical and Taiwanese systems, including the range of minimum-point conventions and the Mandarin and Cantonese terms for a scoreless hand.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_in_Mahjong

    Also cited on: Chinese classical, Modern HKOS, Taiwanese style, Zung Jung · bibliography #55

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