World Gaming Magazine

23 WGM #62 2018/09 wgm8.com …但这个就不是对牌： …but this is not a pair at all: …这只是个标准或普通手牌（下文会进一步讲解）。 … it is just a standard hand (explained further below). 刚开始玩牌九时，你可以带上16组对牌表（按强弱顺 序），用来帮你判断你的手牌是否是对牌。 “至尊宝”是最强的对牌，接下来是11对文牌（按顺 序为天、地、人、和、梅、长、板凳、斧头、红头十、高 脚七和铜锤六），之后是其余4对武牌（按顺序为杂九、杂 八、杂七和杂五）。 When you start playing pai gow, you can use a list of all 16 pairs in rank order. This will help you work out if your hand is a pair or not. Notice that the gee joon non-identical pair is the highest pair, followed by the eleven identical pairs (teen, day, yun, gor, mooy, chong, bon, foo, ping, tit and look, in that order), followed by the four “chop” non-identical pairs (chop gow, chop bot, chop chit and chop ng, in that order). Remember the words gow, bot, chit and ng sound very much like the Cantonese pronunciation of 9, 8, 7 and 5, and those are the number of pips on the chop gow, chop bot, chop chit and chop ng tiles, in that order.