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三槓 · Saam Gong
For the table game: four players, real tiles — a Chinese Official (MCR) pattern that Mahjiku offers as a Hong Kong house rule. Not the solitaire puzzle.
Three Quadruplets / Kongs (三槓 · Saam Gong) is a Chinese Official (MCR) mahjong hand: Three kongs in one hand — three separate sets of four identical tiles, any suits or honours. The legacy additive reference 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 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.
Chinese Official (MCR) pattern. Three Quadruplets / Kongs comes from the Chinese Official ruleset (MCR / 中國麻將競賽規則), not Hong Kong scoring. Mahjiku ships it as an optional House Rules pattern inside its Hong Kong engine — off by default. See the Chinese Official (MCR) patterns section of the library.
Three declared kongs.
The bright sets are the ones that make it Three Quadruplets / Kongs; the faded sets are ordinary filler that any hand needs.
Priced at 0 in the legacy additive reference sheet, Three Quadruplets / Kongs 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.
The example above, self-drawn and fully concealed by South in the East round, passed to Mahjiku's scoring engine on the legacy additive reference sheet. Three Quadruplets / Kongs itself is switched off there, so this is what the same tiles earn without it:
| Line the engine emitted | Faan |
|---|---|
| Base底 | +1 |
| Concealed Hand門前清 | +2 |
| Kong槓 | +3 |
| Total | 6 |
A table that switches Three Quadruplets / Kongs on in House Rules gives it a value, and the engine adds that value on top of the 6 faan above.
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.
Three Quadruplets / Kongs 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.
Open the faan calculator All 53 patternsMore 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: 2026-10-24. This page is generated from Mahjiku's shipped scoring engine — the date moves only when its content does.
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