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Title: Pung ChowAuthor: Lew Lysle HarrRelease date: November 23, 2008 [eBook #27318]Language: EnglishCredits: E-text prepared by K. D. Thornton, Louise Pattison, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net)
Title: Pung Chow
Author: Lew Lysle Harr
Author: Lew Lysle Harr
Release date: November 23, 2008 [eBook #27318]
Language: English
Credits: E-text prepared by K. D. Thornton, Louise Pattison, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net)
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNG CHOW ***
E-text prepared by K. D. Thornton, Louise Pattison,and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team(http://www.pgdp.net)
NOTEPUNG-CHOWINTRODUCTIONSUMMARY OF THE GAMEDESCRIPTION OF TILESPROCEDURE OF PLAYFOUR OF A KINDMAH-JONGG OR MAH-DIAOSETTLING THE SCORESSUGGESTIONS FOR CAREFUL PLAYING OF HANDSUSE OF THE MANDARINSSCORE CARDEXAMPLE OF HANDS AND HOW THEY ARE SCOREDILLUSTRATIONS OF SCORE SETTLINGPART TWOPLAYING WITH A LIMITTHE PROCEDURE OF PLAYBONUS SCORESLIMIT HANDSSCORING VALUESEXPLANATION OF ITEMS IN THE TABLE OF SCORING VALUESDOUBLING HONOR SCORESPENALTIESEXAMPLE OF WINNING HANDSTWO AND THREE-HANDED GAMESTable of ContentsERRATATranscriber's Notes
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PUNG-CHOWPUNG-CHOWTHE GAME OF A HUNDREDINTELLIGENCESAlso known asMAH-DIAOMAH-JONGMAH-CHEUKMAH-JUCKandPE-LINGBy L. L. HARRHARPER & BROTHERS,PublishersNew York and London
PUNG-CHOWPUNG-CHOW
Also known asMAH-DIAOMAH-JONGMAH-CHEUKMAH-JUCKandPE-LINGBy L. L. HARRHARPER & BROTHERS,PublishersNew York and London
Also known asMAH-DIAOMAH-JONGMAH-CHEUKMAH-JUCKandPE-LING
By L. L. HARR
HARPER & BROTHERS,Publishers
New York and London
Copyright, 1922By L. L. HARRPrinted in the U. S. A.
Copyright, 1922
By L. L. HARR
Printed in the U. S. A.
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.
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-CHOWPUNG-CHOWScore CardFor Hands Played Without a LimitWinning Hand Bonus ScoresFor Mah-Jong20 pointsFor no sequences in hand or on table210 pointsFor no other score than Mah-Jong in hand or on table10 pointsFor winning on a draw from the loose tiles10 pointsFor drawing the winning piece2 pointsFor filling in the only place to win2 pointsCombination ScoresOn Table(Exposed)In Hand(Concealed)For 3 of a kind of twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens or eights2 points4 pointsFor 3 of a kind of ones, nines, winds or dragons4 points8 pointsFor 4 of a kind of twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens or eights8 points16 pointsFor 4 of a kind of ones, nines, winds or dragons16 points32 pointsFor a pair of any dragon or the player's own wind2 pointsDoubling HonorsFor 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.Seepage 65for scoring values when hands are played with a limit.
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For Hands Played Without a Limit
Winning Hand Bonus Scores
Combination Scores
Doubling Honors
Seepage 65for scoring values when hands are played with a limit.