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Title: Pung Chow

Author: Lew Lysle Harr

Release date: November 23, 2008 [eBook #27318]

Language: English

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Contents of This E-Book

NOTE
PUNG-CHOW
INTRODUCTION
SUMMARY OF THE GAME
DESCRIPTION OF TILES
PROCEDURE OF PLAY
FOUR OF A KIND
MAH-JONGG OR MAH-DIAO
SETTLING THE SCORES
SUGGESTIONS FOR CAREFUL PLAYING OF HANDS
USE OF THE MANDARINS
SCORE CARD
EXAMPLE OF HANDS AND HOW THEY ARE SCORED
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCORE SETTLING
PART TWO
PLAYING WITH A LIMIT
THE PROCEDURE OF PLAY
BONUS SCORES
LIMIT HANDS
SCORING VALUES
EXPLANATION OF ITEMS IN THE TABLE OF SCORING VALUES
DOUBLING HONOR SCORES
PENALTIES
EXAMPLE OF WINNING HANDS
TWO AND THREE-HANDED GAMES
Table of Contents
ERRATA
Transcriber's Notes

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PUNG-CHOW

PUNG-CHOW

THE GAME OF A HUNDRED
INTELLIGENCES

Also known as

MAH-DIAO

MAH-JONG

MAH-CHEUK

MAH-JUCK

and

PE-LING

By L. L. HARR

Title Page Decoration

HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers

New York and London


Copyright, 1922

By L. L. HARR

Printed in the U. S. A.

NOTE

Mr. L. L. Harr's skill in the game of Pung Chow has been acquired through more than twenty years of intimate contact with the business and official circles of cultured Chinese in Canton, Shanghai, Tientsin, Pekin and other centers of China. Mr. Harr has enjoyed more opportunity to mingle in polite Chinese society than any other European or American resident I knew in China.

Mr. Harr, in consequence, was perhaps one of the first foreigners who learned the game from the best players in China. What is more, Mr. Harr's unusually keen appreciation and enthusiasm were largely instrumental in arousing the popularity of this extraordinarily fascinating Chinese game in the Western Hemisphere. To use a familiar American phrase, Mr. Harr was unquestionably one of the pioneers who put "PUNG CHOW" on the map west of Suez.

Mr. Harr has not only brought the game to America, but has written the first authoritative book on "Pung Chow," based on the best modern methods of Chinese play.

J. D. BUSH,
Professor of English Literature,
Pekin National University,
Pekin, China.

January, 1923.

PUNG-CHOW

Score Card

For Hands Played Without a Limit

Winning Hand Bonus Scores

For Mah-Jong20 points
For no sequences in hand or on table210 points
For no other score than Mah-Jong in hand or on table10 points
For winning on a draw from the loose tiles10 points
For drawing the winning piece2 points
For filling in the only place to win2 points

Combination Scores

On Table
(Exposed)		In Hand
(Concealed)
For 3 of a kind of twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens or eights2 points4 points
For 3 of a kind of ones, nines, winds or dragons4 points8 points
For 4 of a kind of twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens or eights8 points16 points
For 4 of a kind of ones, nines, winds or dragons16 points32 points
For a pair of any dragon or the player's own wind2 points

Doubling Honors

For three (or four) green dragons,double total score once.
For three (or four) red dragons, double total score once.
For three (or four) white dragons,double total score once.
For three (or four) of own wind,double total score once.
For having all one suit except honor pieces,double total score once.
For all one suit,double total score 3 times.
For all honor pieces,double total score 3 times.
For winning on original hand as drawn from the wall,double total score 3 times.

See page 65 for scoring values when hands are played with a limit.

INTRODUCTION