Robbing a Kong

搶槓 · Cheung Gong

1faan

Mahjiku's default value, from the bonus block of the shipped Hong Kong ruleset. Your table can price it differently; the engine reads whatever your rule set says.

What Robbing a Kong means

You won on the very tile an opponent was adding to turn their triplet into a kong — you “robbed” it.

How to spot it. When it happens: someone upgrades a pung to a kong and that tile completes your hand.

What it adds up to

Every win starts at 1 faan for the base, so a hand whose only named line is Robbing a Kong is worth 1 + 1 = 2 faan. Anything else the hand happens to be — a flush, a triplet shape, a dragon set — stacks on top of that.

That is under the table minimum of 3 faan, so Robbing a Kong on its own never wins a hand. It is a top-up, not a hand.

What 2 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	2	+6	+2
半辣上half spicy	0	+0	+0
全辣上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

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 Robbing a Kong already ticked All 0 patterns

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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