Flowers & seasons

Seat Flower

正花 · Jing Fa

0faan

Worth nothing in Mahjiku's default Hong Kong ruleset — 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.

What Seat Flower means

One point for each flower or season whose number matches your seat (East=1, South=2, West=3, North=4). In the house default this is the ONLY way a flower scores — a flower that doesn’t match your seat is worth nothing.

How to spot it. Your flower’s number lines up with your seat’s position.

An example

What it adds up to

Priced at 0 in the shipped default, Seat Flower 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
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

Seat Flower 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.

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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