All Pungs

All Pungs (also called All Triplets, or toitoi in Japanese Riichi) is a hand composed entirely of triplets and kongs plus a single pair, containing no chows (sequences) at all. The standard four-melds-and-a-pair structure is kept, but every meld is a set of identical tiles. It is one of the most widely shared hand types across mahjong traditions, appearing under different names and values.

In Riichi, toitoi is a 2-han yaku and may be claimed open, making it a common goal for hands built by pon-ing triplets off discards; it pairs naturally with high-fu scoring because triplets — especially concealed ones and those of terminals or honors — earn more fu than sequences. It also synergizes with san ankou (three concealed triplets) and is the structural basis for the suu ankou (four concealed triplets) yakuman. In Hong Kong mahjong All Pungs (Pung Pung Wu) is a modest faan bonus, and in Chinese MCR All Pungs scores 6 points.

Because the hand needs no runs, it is often pursued when a player draws many isolated pairs early and decides to pon them into triplets. For example, a hand of pung 3m, pung 7p, pung 9s, pung East, with a pair of 5p, is all pungs. A key confusion is the kong interaction: kongs count as triplets for the pattern, so a hand with kongs still qualifies as All Pungs. Another is the overlap with seven pairs — seven pairs is seven distinct pairs and is a different structure, not a pung hand. Strategically, going for all pungs is fast when opening but freezes a hand into a rigid shape, so it is best committed to once several pairs are already in hand.