All Triplets (對對胡)

What is All Triplets?

All Triplets (對對胡) is a 3-faan Hong Kong Mahjong winning hand consisting of four triplets — any combination of pungs (three identical tiles) or kongs (four identical tiles) — plus one pair. It is one of the most common faan-earning patterns above the 3-faan minimum threshold and is structurally incompatible with hands built on chows.

How to score All Triplets

The hand requires four melds, each of which must be either a pung (碰) or a kong (槓). Sequences (chows / 上) are not permitted in any meld. The fifth element is a pair, which can be any tile — suited, wind, or dragon. Triplets can come from any combination of suits and honors; they don’t need to share a suit. The pair tile is independent of the four triplets.

A typical winning hand has four melds + 1 pair = 14 tiles (with kongs adding one extra tile per kong, drawn as a replacement). All Triplets can be won by self-draw or by claiming a discard for the final pung.

Example hand

Faan value: 3

All Triplets is worth 3 faan, which pays 8 base units on a standard table. If a player is on the 3-faan minimum, this single pattern qualifies the hand to declare a win on its own.

Common combinations

All Triplets stacks naturally with several patterns because its structural requirement (no chows) doesn’t conflict with suit or honor requirements:

• Pure One Suit (清一色) + All Triplets — 7 + 3 = 10 faan. All four triplets and the pair share one numbered suit.
• Mixed One Suit (混一色) + All Triplets — 3 + 3 = 6 faan. One suit plus honors, with all melds as pungs.
• Concealed Hand (門前清) + All Triplets — 1 + 3 = 4 faan, when no triplets were claimed from discards.
• Three Concealed Pungs (三暗刻) + All Triplets — 3 + 3 = 6 faan, when at least three of the four pungs were self-drawn.

All Triplets is automatically included in higher-tier hands like All Honors (字一色, 10 faan) and All Terminals (清么九, 10 faan), so its 3 faan is not counted separately when those apply — the limit-tier hand absorbs it.

It is mutually exclusive with All Sequences (平糊), since the two define opposite meld structures.

Strategic note

All Triplets favors aggressive discard-claim play: you can call pung on any discard from any player, while chow claims are restricted to the previous player. Players holding pairs early in the round often pivot toward All Triplets to maximize claim opportunities and reach the 3-faan minimum without waiting for suit purity.