Chinese Official Mahjong · 24 pt

All Even Pungs in Chinese Official Mahjong (MCR): Points, Examples and Odds

In Chinese Official Mahjong, All Even Pungs (全双刻) is worth 24 points: when you win, all four sets are pungs (or kongs), the pair is a pair, and every single tile is a 2, 4, 6 or 8 of characters, dots or bamboo. On its own it is far above the 8-point minimum.

The rules for All Even Pungs

• Four pungs or kongs plus one pair: no chows at all
• Pungs and pair use only 2, 4, 6 and 8 of the suits, no honors
• You may pung and kong; a concealed hand is not required
• Flowers don't matter; each one is worth 1 point on top (not toward the minimum)

Seven even pairs are not All Even Pungs: the fan needs four pungs, and Seven Pairs has none.

What All Even Pungs does not combine with

Under the non-repeat rule, All Even Pungs already implies these, so they are not counted:

• All Pungs (6 points): four pungs are All Pungs by definition
• All Simples (2 points): 2, 4, 6 and 8 are never terminals
• No Honors (1 point)

Every other pung-related fan still counts: Three or Two Concealed Pungs, Four Concealed Pungs, Double Pung, Triple Pung, melded and concealed kongs, One Voided Suit.

How All Even Pungs is scored

The points below are calculated live by this site's scoring engine — the same one the game uses — including the fans dropped under the non-repeat rule.

Common combinations:

Related fans

• All Pungs: All Even Pungs is All Pungs restricted to even tiles, and the value jumps from 6 to 24.
• All Simples: implied by All Even Pungs, not counted.
• Triple Pung and Double Pung: same-number pungs such as 2 characters, 2 dots and 2 bamboo are common here and still count.
• Middle Tiles, Upper Four and Lower Four: these look at the range of numbers and don't conflict. Only 4s and 6s is also Middle Tiles, only 6s and 8s is Upper Four, only 2s and 4s is Lower Four — the points add up.

How often does All Even Pungs happen?

All Even Pungs needs four pungs and only 12 kinds of even tiles, which makes it far harder than All Pungs. All Even Pungs is not one of the target patterns of this site's AI; it only shows up by accident while the AI builds All Pungs or Triple Pung. In 3,849 AI wins it appeared 0 times, against 0.26% for All Pungs. That sample is far too small for a real rate — all we can say is that it is very rare.

Pungs grow out of pairs. A 13-tile opening hand has 4 or more pairs about 2.2% of the time, and those pairs would also have to be even, so All Even Pungs nearly always starts as an All Pungs hand whose pungs turn out to be even.

When to go for All Even Pungs

• You are already building All Pungs and most of your pairs and pungs are 2s, 4s, 6s and 8s.
• Break odd pairs first: a pair of 3s, 5s or 7s only leads to a plain All Pungs; discarding them is the way to 24 points.
• Pung freely: no concealed hand is required, so pung even tiles whenever they come.
• Opponents will notice: two exposed even pungs and not one odd tile in your discards, and experienced players hold back 2s, 4s, 6s and 8s.

When to give up: you still hold two or more odd pairs, or the wall is half gone and you are two pungs short. Go back to plain All Pungs and add a dragon pung or concealed pungs to reach 8. To try it yourself, play Chinese Official Mahjong online — the scoring is automatic.

FAQ

How many points is All Even Pungs?

All Even Pungs is worth 24 points in Chinese Official Mahjong. All Pungs, All Simples and No Honors are not counted on top.

Can I pung for All Even Pungs?

Yes. No concealed hand is required; pungs and melded kongs are fine as long as all four sets and the pair are even.

Are seven even pairs All Even Pungs?

No. All Even Pungs needs four pungs plus a pair; Seven Pairs has no pungs, so it scores Seven Pairs (plus All Simples and so on).

Does All Even Pungs also score All Pungs?

No. All Even Pungs already includes All Pungs, so under the non-repeat rule you only score All Even Pungs, 24 points.

Related fan

All Pungs 6 pt Four pungs and a pair for 6 points — short of the 8-point minimum. How to top it up and what it stacks with. All Simples 2 pt Only 2s to 8s, 2 points: rules, what it absorbs, which bigger fans absorb it, and how to use it to reach 8. Middle Tiles 24 pt A whole hand of 4s, 5s and 6s for 24 points: rules, what it absorbs, how it stacks with All Fives.