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大三元 · Dai Saam Yuen
patterns block of the shipped Hong Kong ruleset. Your table can price it differently; the engine reads whatever your rule set says.A triplet of all three dragons — red, green and white together. A dream hand.
How to spot it. Three dragon triplets, one of each colour.
The bright sets are the ones that make it Big Three Dragons; the faded sets are ordinary filler that any hand needs.
These are not illustrative numbers: the tiles above were passed to Mahjiku's scoring engine (won on a discard, with sets claimed from the table, seat wind North, round wind North) and this is the breakdown it returned.
| Line the engine emitted | Faan |
|---|---|
| Big Three Dragons大三元 | +18 |
| Base底 | +1 |
| Total | 19 |
Faan is not the score by itself — it is the number the table turns into points, and Hong Kong tables do that two different ways. Both are shipped in Mahjiku; the additive model is the default.
| Payout model | One payer owes | Self-draw 自摸 | Discard 點炮 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Additivefaan is the payout | 19 | +57 | +19 |
| 半辣上half spicy | 384 | +1152 | +384 |
| 全辣上full spicy | 8192 | +24576 | +8192 |
Self-draw: all three opponents pay. Discard: only the player who threw the tile pays. Both columns are the winner's gain, straight out of the app's settlement function.
Worth knowing. Both doubling tables stop at 13 faan, so this 19-faan hand is paid at the 13-faan row — 384 points under 半辣上 and 8192 under 全辣上. Everything above 13 faan pays the same. The additive model has no ceiling, so there the extra faan still count.
The free faan calculator opens with this hand already selected — add whatever else your hand had and watch the points move.
Open the calculator with Big Three Dragons already ticked All 0 patternsMore context: the pattern library lists every hand by family, the scoring guide explains how faan becomes points, and the FAQ answers the questions people ask before their first game night.
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