No Flowers No Honours

無花無字 · Mou Faa Mou Zi

No Flowers No Honours (無花無字 · Mou Faa Mou Zi) is a Hong Kong mahjong hand: You finished the hand without a single flower and without a single wind or dragon tile. Mahjiku's default sheet prices it at 0 faan — it ships switched off, so a win whose only named line is this one is worth just the 1 faan base until a table gives it a value in House Rules. Payment follows the hand's whole faan total, not this line alone: under Mahjiku's default 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). Faan values are a table's own call; this is Mahjiku's shipped default, editable in House Rules.

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Worth nothing in Mahjiku's default rule set — it is shipped switched off, and a table turns it on by giving it a value in House Rules. Your table can price it differently; the engine reads whatever your rule set says.

How to spot No Flowers No Honours at the table

When it happens: no flowers on your rack, and nothing but numbered tiles in the hand.

What it adds up to

Priced at 0 in the shipped default, No Flowers No Honours adds nothing to a hand's total — a win that names only this one is worth the 1 faan base and no more. A table that wants it to count gives it a value in House Rules, and the engine starts adding it.

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. 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	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

No Flowers No Honours is a House-Rules option rather than a chip on the calculator, so it has no switch there. The engine does score it once your table gives it a value; 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.

Last updated: 2026-08-27. This page is generated from Mahjiku's shipped scoring engine — the date moves only when its content does.

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