Mahjong Helper Hong Kong Rules

Pupperhelm Interactive

About this app

New to Hong Kong Mahjong? Sitting at a table with experienced players? Mahjong Helper is a clear offline companion for learning the tiles, checking calls, and understanding a winning hand. Learn Hong Kong Mahjong, check calls, validate hands, and understand faan scoring with a clear offline companion.

Built for real tables and physical tiles, it is a reference and scoring tool—not a digital Mahjong game.

Learn the game

- Identify Characters, Dots, Bamboo, Winds, Dragons, Flowers, and Seasons.
- See English names beside Traditional Chinese Mahjong terms.
- Learn Chow, Pung, Kong, Pair, drawing, discarding, calling, and winning.
- Follow short lessons with visual examples and simple explanations.
- Review quick answers when the table is waiting.

Live score tracker

- Enter four player names, then record each discard win, self-draw or drawn hand in a quick popup.
- The app calculates points from your selected payout table and follows the dealer, seat winds, round wind and running totals.
- Review every hand, undo a mistake and resume your saved game after checking another part of the app.
- Start with Standard payouts or save a named table for your family or club.

Check a hand

- Tap tile pictures instead of typing tile names.
- Enter concealed tiles, exposed Chows/Pungs/Kongs, concealed Kongs, and bonus tiles.
- Get a structural explanation: complete hand, incomplete hand, impossible quantity, or invalid structure.
- Explore the tiles that could complete a 13-tile structure.

Understand Scoring

- Score a hand under Hong Kong Old Style — Standard Beginner Preset.
- Start with a 0-faan minimum, or adjust the minimum and cap for your table.
- See the reason for every scoring element and which tiles support it.
- Review compact examples for common hands, bonuses, special hands, and high-value or limit hands.
- Enable or disable Flowers and Seasons, Seven Pairs, special hands, and selected house variations.

Made for the whole table

- Large, readable controls and generous touch targets.
- Screen-reader descriptions for tiles.
- Dark mode and Android font scaling support.
- English-first explanations with Traditional Chinese terminology.
- Works offline after installation. No account, ads, analytics, or cloud service.

Mahjong rules and faan values vary between families, clubs, and regions. Agree on your table’s minimum, cap, flowers, and special-hand rules before play. Mahjong Helper makes its selected interpretation visible and configurable so everyone can compare the result.