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112 tiles. Only three suits and Zhong. A win needs a triplet, a revealed meld and a terminal, and calling ting turns up a wildcard the whole table can win on.

144 tiles, with flowers and seasons drawn and replaced as you go. The only ruleset here that prices a hand: dragons, winds, flushes and seven pairs each count for fan, and the total is looked up rather than added.

The sixteen-tile game as Taiwan actually plays it. Five sets and a pair, not four. Flowers and seasons match your seat, and hands are priced in tai: counted up and added to a base, so every tai is worth what the last one was.

108 tiles, no honors, no chow, and every hand opens with a three-tile swap in a direction a die picks after you have chosen. A plain hand must be self-drawn, except at either end of the wall.

All 136 tiles, and a win must span every suit or none. Wind and dragon kongs turn themselves face up at the deal, and the first player one tile away rolls for a treasure only they can see.

No chow, and you only win on your own draw. The White Dragon is wild, kongs pay as they land, and a kong left on show can be robbed.

The same game, but a tile flipped at the deal points at the wildcard tile and it is never the exact tile you flipped. A fresh ghost every hand.

No chow, and you only win on your own draw. A tile comes off the wall once the deal ends and it is wild along with the tile it points at. Neither can be thrown.

144 tiles, and every honor is a bonus tile right alongside the flowers. Only the suits are ever held. A tile flipped off the dead wall once they're all replaced is Jin, wild for the rest of the hand.

84 tiles. Just ranks 2 through 8 only, no honors. Nothing may ever be called off a discard, and no hand wins until one suit reaches eight tiles. Every meld is built in hand, priced in 咀.

144 tiles, flowers included. One call all hand, shared between chi and pong, and it has to leave you tenpai. Pass on a winning tile and you're locked out of discard wins, briefly or for good depending on whether you've called yet.

No chow, and a toss phase before the first discard sets aside 1s, 9s and honors as pre-formed melds. You must declare tenpai to win, and passing on a winning tile blocks only that tile.

144 tiles, flowers included. The pair in every winning hand must be a 2, 5 or 8. Declare 明约 for a doubled, self-draw-only stake, and feed one seat three calls and you alone pay their win.

The same 2, 5, or 8 pair ruleset at 136 tiles. No flowers here.

Any standard 4-meld-and-pair hand can win, but only after you've formally knocked ready, which locks your hand and obligates you to take the first legal win or forfeit the hand outright.

108 tiles, no honors. The pair must be a 2, 5 or 8 unless the hand is a flush, all triplets, all 258s, or entirely claimed. Five dealt hands pay out instantly and keep playing, one discard can pay several winners, and a bird drawn after the win doubles whoever it points at.

You only win on your own draw, and the White Dragon is 财神, wild for anything, and throwable like any other tile. A wildcard in your pair wins on whatever you draw next; two of them, and you can throw one away to double it.

The same game, but 财神 is settled by dice each hand: count that many stacks in from the dead wall and turn the top tile up. That exact face is wild, not the one after it, leaving three copies in play.