Fuzhou Mahjong: fuzhou-style mahjong with private tables and bots guide

Fuzhou Mahjong (福州麻将) is a four-player mahjong game with Fuzhou rules: flowers are replaced, a tile is flipped as the gold wild joker, and the first legal win collects from all three opponents. Play at a private table with friends using a room code, or start a solo game against three server bots. This guide covers mj.micstec.com and the rules as this app implements them.

Get started

1. Open Fuzhou Mahjong and choose Take a seat. Explore the full rules works without an account.
2. Choose Log in / Sign up: use email and password with a nickname, or Sign in with Google. Tick Stay logged in for a year on your own device.
3. In the Lobby, choose:
   • Solo play — You + 3 bots, server-dealt, starting immediately;
   • Create table — open a table and share its Room code;
   • Join table — enter the six-character code from a friend.

In WeChat's built-in browser, Google sign-in and app install do not work. Tap ··· and choose Open in Browser, or use email sign-in.

Play with friends

1. The host chooses Create table, optionally enters a Table name, and shares the code with Copy code or Copy invite. Friends enter it under Join table.
2. When two or more players are seated, the host chooses Start. A table with fewer than four players asks Not full yet — start anyway?; bots fill the empty seats.
3. The host can Remove a player and can End game to dissolve the table for everyone. Minimize keeps the table open so players can come back later.
4. Use Table chat (1–500 characters) to talk to the table. Notifications collects table events and messages from the administrator.

Read the table

• The table is drawn from your point of view: your hand at the bottom (you sit South), your upper seat on the left, your lower seat on the right, and the opposite seat at the top. A glowing seat is acting.
• The top line shows the Gold tile and how many tiles are Left in the wall. Your running score is at the top right; D marks the dealer and Streak the dealer's run of wins.
• Each player's flowers, exposed melds and discards stay visible.

Play your turn

1. Your tile is drawn automatically when it is Your turn.
2. Tap a tile to select it (tap again to deselect), then choose Discard.
3. When you can Chow, Pong, Kong or Win, the buttons light up or a Your call panel appears; the game waits for your choice. Pass declines the claim.
4. Sort arranges your hand: gold first, then characters (万), dots (筒), bamboo (索) and honors.

The rules in brief

These are this app's fixed house rules; regional versions differ. Open Help → Rules for ten sections with tile examples.

Tiles, flowers and the gold

• The wall has 123 tiles: 108 suited tiles (1–9 in characters 万, dots 筒 and bamboo 索, four of each) plus 15 flowers, one of each: the winds 东南西北, the dragons 中发白, 梅兰竹菊 and 春夏秋冬. Flowers never join a hand — they only add points when you win.
• When you draw a flower, it is replaced from the tail of the wall. After the deal, everyone replaces flowers dealer-first, in rounds, until no hand holds one.
• Then one tile is flipped from the tail: that is the gold (金). Gold is wild — it can complete any sequence or triplet, or be the pair.
• A discarded gold is dead: nobody can chow, pong, kong or win on it, and the player who discarded it may only win by self-draw for the rest of the deal.

Dealer and turn order

The dealer starts with 17 tiles and discards first; everyone else has 16. Play goes counter-clockwise. When the dealer wins or the deal is a draw, the dealership continues and the Streak grows, adding to later scores. When someone else wins, the dealership passes on.

Claims

Winning

A winning hand is five melds plus one pair (each exposed meld counts). A meld is a sequence of three in one suit or three identical tiles; a kong counts as a meld. Win by Self-draw or Ron (claiming a discard). Special wins, scored by the highest one that applies:

Idle gold: if your single gold does no work — the rest of the hand already forms every meld — you may only win by self-draw. A gold pair is not idle.

The final four tiles

Eighteen tiles stay untouched at the tail; each exposed kong adds one and each concealed kong two. When only four drawable tiles remain, the final sweep begins: players draw in turn, no flowers are replaced, and nobody discards or claims. A winning draw wins at once; otherwise the deal is a draw.

Scoring

Bonus = flowers + golds in hand + exposed kongs × 1 + concealed kongs × 2 + dealer streak. Total = base + bonus × multiplier: ×2 for self-draws and special wins, ×1 for a normal ron. The winner collects the total from each of the other three players.

Example: a self-drawn Pinghu with 2 flowers, 1 exposed kong and a streak of 1 scores 10 + (2 + 0 + 1 + 1) × 2 = 18, so each opponent pays 18 and the winner gains 54. Each deal's breakdown appears under Scoring and in the deal log.

Review a deal

Every deal is recorded. Open Replay to Step through it or Auto play it, and Export the JSON to share for review (or Import one). Send data sends the current deal to the administrator if something looks wrong; Contact admin opens a private message thread.

Sound and display

Switch Sound, Voice (spoken calls in Chinese or English), Music and Keep screen on on or off to suit where you are playing.

Watch the tutorial

This narrated English desktop walkthrough shows the actual game interface. The Help screen's How-to video offers the same tutorials.

English mobile tutorial · Chinese desktop tutorial · Chinese mobile tutorial

Install on your phone

Choose Install, or use the browser's Install / Add to Home Screen for full-screen play. On iPhone, tap Share → Add to Home Screen.

Common questions