Common Hand (平糊)
All four sets are chows and the pair is not a value tile (not dragons, not seat or round wind).
How Common Hand (平糊) works
A standard winning hand made of four chows (runs of three consecutive tiles in one suit) plus a pair, with no triplets or kongs.
Also called All Sequences, this is the basic 'flat' hand where every set is a chow and the eyes are a simple pair. Because triplets are excluded, the pair typically may not be a value pair (a dragon, or your seat or round wind) under standard scoring. It is a foundational pattern that other faan such as suit purity or self-draw can build on top of.
- •Mutually exclusive with any hand containing a pung or kong, since all four sets must be sequences.
- •Many house rules disallow a scoring pair (dragon or relevant wind) in the eyes for this pattern to count.
- •Often the minimum-scoring goal hand, so it pairs naturally with flowers, suit faan, or winning-condition faan to reach a payable total.
Common Hand (平糊) — FAQ
Can the pair be a dragon or a wind?
Under common Hong Kong rules a value pair disqualifies the hand, because that pair could otherwise earn its own faan; a neutral numbered or non-scoring pair is the safe form.
Are kongs allowed in a Common Hand?
No. A kong counts as a triplet-type set, which breaks the all-sequences requirement.