World Gaming Magazine

25 WGM #61 2018/08 wgm8.com The 32 tiles are comprised of: • 11 identical pairs, each made up of two identical tiles with the same number of pips and same pip pattern. These 11 identical pairs total 22 tiles. Each pair has a one-word name. • Five non-identical pairs. Each non-identical pair has a two word name: a) Chop gow, chop bot, chop chit and chop ng. Each of these four non-identical pairs comprise two tiles with the same number of pips but different pip patterns. Note each name starts with the word chop followed by the words gow, bot, chit or ng, which sound similar to the Cantonese words for nine, eight, seven and five respectively, which just so happens to be the number of pips on each of the tiles in each of the four respective pairs. b) Gee joon. This is a very special pair, comprising one tile with three pips and one tile with six pips (yet it is still considered a pair). We’ll talk more about the special properties of the gee joon tiles in part C. The pairs are ranked in order from 1 to 16 (as shown below), with the lowest rank number being the strongest (just think 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on). Over time, you will learn the order of the ranks of the pairs. There is no logic to the ranking order. It has nothing to do with the number of pips on the tiles. The order is simply the order and it is more than acceptable to have an image of the tiles such as the one below to refer to whilst playing the game. 32张骨牌包括： • 11对同牌，称作「文牌」。每组牌由两张点数和 图案均相同的牌组成。这11对文牌一共是22张。 • 5对不同牌，称作「武牌」，分别为： a. 「杂九」、「杂八」、「杂七」和「杂五」。 这四组对牌每组有两张牌，点数相同，但图案有别。 「杂」字后面的数字代表这四对牌中每张牌的点数。 b. 「至尊宝」。这是一组特殊对牌，包括一张点 数为3的牌和一张点数为6的牌。我们会在部分C中就其 特殊性做更多讨论。 对牌大小顺序从第一到第十六排列（如下图所示）， 最强的排在第一。排序并无逻辑性，与牌的点数没有关 系，只是个规定的顺序而已。玩游戏时如果想带一个诸如 上面这样的提示作为参考是完全允许的。 至尊宝 1 gee joon 天 2 teen 地 3 day 人 4 yun 和 5 gor 梅 6 mooy 长 7 chong 板凳 8 bon 斧头 9 foo 红头十 10 ping 高脚七 11 tit 铜䍋六 12 look 杂九 13 chop gow 杂八 14 chop bot 杂七 15 chop chit 杂五 16 chop ng