MAH JONG SCORE CARD

By R. F. FOSTER

Compiled after codifying thirty-one books of rules by various Chinese and American Authors

SIMPLES are the suit cards, from 2 to 8 inclusive. HONORS are the Is and 9s of each suit; the 4 Winds and the 3 Dragons.

Scores for All Hands

Sequences are worth nothing.

3 Simples, on the table, are worth .2

3 Simples, in the hand, are worth .4

3 Honors, on the table, are worth .4

3 Honors, in the hand, are worth .8

4 Simples, on the table, arc worth . 8

4 Simples, in the hand, are worth . 16

4 Honors, on the table, are worth . 16

4 Honors, in the hand are worth 32

2 of Your Own Wind or 2 Dragons 2

2 of Dominating Wind. 2

2 of Your Own and Dominating Wind 4

If Seasons are used, each is worth . . 4

Winning Hand Only, Gets For Woo (Making Mah Jong) ... 20

For having nothing but sequences and a worthless pair .10

For winning on a Loose-tile draw . .10

For Drawing the tile to make Mah Jong. . 2

For Filling the Only Place to Win . . 2

For Drawing and Filling the Only Place 4

For Having no Sequences . .One Double

For Woo on First Tile Drawn,

Three Doubles

Double Three Times, All Hands

For All One Suit; no Winds or Dragons. For All Winds and Dragons; no Suit tiles. For All Is and 9s; no Winds or Dragons. For All the Red, or all the Green, Seasons.

Double Foregoing Once, All Hands

For 3 or 4 of Your Own Wind, or Dragons. For 3 or 4 of the Dominating Wind.

For Only One Suit, Winds and Dragons. For All Is and 9s, Winds and Dragons. For Two of Your Own Season Number.

A MAH JONG CONVENTION

VANITY FAIR is undertaking the arrangements for calling and promoting a convention of expert Mah Jong players and teachers, with the object of forming a Mah Jong League, on the same lines as the American Whist League, which has so successfully managed the affairs of Whist and Bridge for the past thirty years; issuing the official laws for the game, holding annual tournaments for play and conventions for discussion of moot points, and voting upon them.

THE LAWS OF MAH JONG

The Revised Laws for the game of Mah Jong, which have been prepared by R. F. Foster, and which are based upon an exhaustive comparison and review of more than thirty text books on the game by various Chinese and American writers, and published in this and the November number of Vanity Fair, are now available in pamphlet form, of a size convenient for the pocket. Mailed on receipt of twentyfive cents. Address, Mah Jong Editor, Vanity Fair, 19 West 44th Street, New York.