59,000 3 MAJO Kai-Min Chuang, Yueh-Ju Chen, and Shun-Shii Lin 11,500 Table 1: The participants and final standings. In general, the rules for Mahjong are quite complex. Besides, many different variations of Mahjong are using different rules in the world. This tournament used the version commonly played in Taiwan, which are described by Lin, Shan, and Wu (2011) in greater detail. The total tiles of Mahjong are 144 pieces, classified into six kinds of suits, which include Wan (ten thousand, or 萬 in Chinese), Tiao (rope, 條 or索), Tong (dot, or 筒), Wind (風), Dragon (箭) and Flower (花). Wan includes 1-Wan to 9-Wan; and Tiao and Tong are similar. Wind includes East, West, South, and North Winds; and Dragon has Red, Green and White Dragons. Each of them has four tiles. Flowers are related to extra bonus and have nothing to do with win-loss. Players initially obtain 16 tiles from a pool, and then take turns to bid a new tile (the 17th) and discard a tile to exchange tiles after bidding a tile.