Special hands · limit hand

Human Hand

人和 · Yan Wo

16faan

Mahjiku's default value, from the combination catalog — the engine has no detector for this hand yet, so a table scores it by hand. Your table can price it differently; the engine reads whatever your rule set says.

What Human Hand means

A non-dealer wins on a discard in the very first go-around, before drawing a single tile.

How to spot it. When it happens: you win almost immediately, off an early discard, before your first draw.

What it adds up to

Every win starts at 1 faan for the base, so a hand whose only named line is Human Hand is worth 1 + 16 = 17 faan. Anything else the hand happens to be — a flush, a triplet shape, a dragon set — stacks on top of that.

What 17 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. 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	17	+51	+17
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 17-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.

Try it yourself

Human Hand has no detector in the engine yet — it is a moment at the table rather than a shape in the tiles, so a table adds its faan by hand. The calculator totals up everything else in the hand.

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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.

Game points only. Mahjiku records mahjong points for a friendly table — no betting, no money, nothing to cash out. Pencatat skor mahjong. Bukan judi, tanpa taruhan.

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