Chicken Hand

雞糊 · Gai Wu

For the table game: four players, real tiles, Hong Kong style — not the solitaire puzzle.

Chicken Hand (雞糊 · Gai Wu) is a Hong Kong mahjong hand: A complete hand — four sets and a pair — with nothing else going on: no runs worth naming, no matching suits, no dragons, no winds of your own. It is a win, and it is worth exactly what the table pays for winning. The legacy additive reference sheet gives it no value of its own, so such a win is worth the 1 faan base and nothing more — and the 3 faan table minimum keeps it off the board until a table drops that minimum to 0 faan. Payment follows the hand's whole faan total, not this line alone: under the legacy additive model the total is what each payer hands over — all three opponents on a self-draw (自摸), the discarder alone on a discard win (點炮). These are legacy additive reference values; tables choose their own sheet.

Unless another sheet is named, examples use the legacy additive reference sheet. Fresh installs select Half Spicy, whose hand values and payments differ. Check the sheet selected for your table.

0faan

Worth nothing extra by itself — Chicken Hand isn't priced like the other rows above. It's a fallback the engine only names when a winning hand matches no other pattern, gated by its own on/off switch (the patterns block of the legacy additive reference sheet). The legacy additive reference sheet has that switch on but the win minimum at 3 faan, so on this sheet no hand is ever only this. A table turns it on for real by dropping the minimum to 0 — the shipped Chicken Hand ruleset does exactly that — not by giving this row a faan value. Your table can price it differently; the engine reads whatever your rule set says.

How to spot Chicken Hand at the table

The hand is finished and the score sheet has nothing to write down.

An example

What it adds up to

A Chicken Hand win is worth the 1 faan base and nothing more — that is the whole point of the name. It is never a top-up on another pattern: the engine only names it when nothing else scored. A table that wants a bare win like this to be declarable lowers the win minimum to 0 faan (the shipped Chicken Hand ruleset); the legacy additive reference sheet’s 3 faan minimum keeps it off the table.

A worked hand

Take the example above, won by South off West's discard with sets claimed from the table. On the legacy additive reference sheet it names nothing, so it falls short of the 3 faan minimum and cannot be declared. On the shipped Chicken Hand 雞糊 sheet, minimum 0 faan, the engine accepts it:

Line the engine emitted	Faan
Chicken Hand雞糊	0
No Flowers無花	+1
Total	1

West, who threw the winning tile, pays 4, and the other seats 2 and 2. A small win, but a win, which is the whole point of a beginners' table.

What 1 faan actually pays

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. The table below keeps the legacy additive reference sheet's hand values and changes only its payout model. The half/full rows are illustrative payout overrides, not the Half Spicy or Full Spicy presets, which also change hand values and settlement.

Payout model	One payer owes	Self-draw 自摸	Discard 點炮
Additivefaan is the payout	1	+3	+1
半辣上half spicy	0	+0	+0
辣辣上full spicy	0	+0	+0

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. Under a doubling table a hand below the 3 faan minimum pays nothing at all — the zeros above are the engine's minimum-faan gate, not a rounding artefact.

Try it yourself

Chicken Hand has no chip on the calculator because it isn't something you tick alongside other patterns — it only applies to a hand that ticks nothing at all. The calculator still totals up everything else in the hand; 3 faan of it is what your table's minimum requires.

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More 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. In Bahasa Indonesia: Chicken hand (雞糊) artinya: tangan ayam.

Last updated: 2026-10-24. This page is generated from Mahjiku's shipped scoring engine — the date moves only when its content does.

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