Fan: what a hand is worth
Chapter 6 of 10 · 4 min
Fan is how a hand is scored. You add up the fan of everything your hand has. The table below shows the ones you will see most often.
| Hand | Fan |
|---|---|
| Common hand | 1 |
| Self-drawn | 1 |
| Concealed hand | 1 |
| Dragon pong | 1 |
| Seat wind | 1 |
| Round wind | 1 |
| No flowers | 1 |
| Seat flower | 1 |
| All triplets | 3 |
| Mixed one suit | 3 |
| Small dragons | 5 |
| All one suit | 7 |
| Great dragons | 8 |
| Thirteen orphans | 13 |
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A hand made only of runs is a common hand. Three of a kind everywhere is all triplets. One suit with honours is mixed one suit, and one suit alone is all one suit.
The game counts fan for you, and the results screen lists every line.
Quick check
Your hand is all circles, with no honours. What is it?
Answer: All one suit. Right. One suit with no honours is all one suit, worth much more than mixed one suit.
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