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What is a pair in American Mahjong?

Definition

A pair is two identical tiles, and it is the one set a joker can never be part of.

Pairs must be drawn naturally or completed by the winning call. A hand built mostly of pairs cannot use jokers, which is why jokers and pairs hands are natural enemies.

Read the full guide: Pung, Kong, Quint, and Pair: The Sets That Make Up Every Hand.

See it on real tiles: the coach reads any hand and names its direction, free, at the free read. Members get the coach on call for their own games.

More terms: Pung, Kong, Quint, Charleston, Blind pass, Courtesy pass, Joker, Joker exchange.