Strategy – Terms used

To avoid too much long-windedness the following terms, abbreviations and conventions have been used:

Relating to the Minor tiles  (i.e. 2 to 8 of each suit)​

Bonus tile	Flower or Season tile
Clean hand	A Mah-Jong hand that is made up of just one suit, with some honour tiles (not the same as the special hand, “Purity”)
Dealt hand	The tiles that you acquire from the wall at the start of the game
Dirty hand	A Mah-Jong which is made up of more than one suit (i.e. not a clean hand)
he/him/his	he/she, him/her, his/hers
Honour	Relating to the Dragon and Wind tiles
Major	Relating to the Major tiles  (i.e. 1 and 9 of each suit)
Minor	Relating to the Minor tiles  (i.e. 2 to 8 of each suit)
MJ	Mah-Jong
Normal MJ	A Mah-Jong which is not a special hand
Pick-ups	Tiles which are picked up from the wall or from discards
Same tile	A tile which is one of the same set of four tiles
Simple MJ	A Mah-Jong that is the easiest to collect rather than a high scoring one
[d]	Which scores a double

 

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