All Honours (字一色) — 10 Faan

All Honours is worth 10 faan — every tile in the hand is an honour (winds and dragons), with no suited tiles at all.

What it is

All Honours is a hand built entirely from honour tiles: any mix of the four winds and three dragons, with not one tile of dots, bamboo or characters. Since honours can’t form sequences, the hand is necessarily four pungs (or kongs) plus a pair — an All Pungs structure by birth.

How to form it

You need eight or more honours in your starting hand to even consider it. The play is to pung every honour and shed all suited tiles. Each honour has only four copies, so you depend on claiming discards — early on players discard honours freely, but mid-game they lock up, so pung early.

Example hand — 10 Faan

Common scoring mistake

Here All Honours counts as 10 faan, and many tables simply pay it as a limit hand. Whether the All Pungs 3 faan stacks on top or 10 is already the cap varies by table — agree before the game rather than argue at showdown.

Combines with

All Honours frequently carries Small Three Dragons or Small Four Winds inside it (say, three wind pungs plus two dragon sets) — the stack blows far past the cap, so in practice it pays the limit.

All Pungs — 3 Faan Small Three Dragons — 5 Faan Small Four Winds — 8 Faan

Frequently asked questions

How many faan is All Honours?

All Honours is worth 10 faan in Hong Kong Mahjong: every tile is a wind or dragon, with no suited tiles. Many tables pay it as a limit hand.

Is All Honours always an All Pungs hand?

Yes. Honour tiles cannot form sequences, so All Honours is always four pungs or kongs plus a pair.

Can All Honours combine with Small Three Dragons or Small Four Winds?

They can coexist — for example three wind pungs plus two dragon sets. The combined total usually exceeds the cap, so it effectively pays the limit.

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