Mahjong Rummy
BGG rank
BGG #21,427
BGG rating
7.1

Mahjong Rummy

Rules assistance for Mahjong Rummy

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 4 players
  • 20 min
  • 7+
  • Complexity 2.0/5

Rules assistant for Mahjong Rummy

For 4 players

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Mahjong Rummy is a board game for 4 players, 20 minutes per game, and ages 7 and up. Its main mechanics are Hand Management and Set Collection.

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About the game

Mahjong Rummy is a gambling game for 4 players. Each player gets 20 tiles at the start of a game. 32 tiles are left over and are unused for the rest of the game. Players try to be the first to get rid of all their tiles, and if none can achieve this, the winner is the player with the least points left in their hand. Numbered tiles score according to their face value. J, Q and K score 10. Aces score 15. On a player's first turn, he/she must play a straight flush from his/her hand (at least three tiles of the same suit in sequence, jokers allowed). After that players can play any meld (at least three of a same number of any suit, or at least three numbers of the same suit in sequence) or add to other players' melds. Mahjong Rummy has 112 tiles - 2 sets of 4 suits from Two to Ace (2 x 4 x 13 = 104), plus 8 jokers.

Publishers

  • (Public Domain)

Questions and answers

Mahjong Rummy supports 4 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.