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All Eight Flowers (Baat Sin Gwo Hoi) in Hong Kong Mahjong: Limit Hand and Odds
In Hong Kong mahjong, All Eight Flowers (八仙過海) is a limit hand, worth Limit: when all eight flowers — four seasons and four plants — are in front of you, you win on the spot, whether your hand is complete or not.
It's a flower win: what wins is the flowers, not your hand. So unlike the rest of the fan table it adds no Concealed, Self-drawn or other fan — it scores the 10-fan limit directly.
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The rules for All Eight Flowers
- All eight flowers are yours — from the opening replacement or drawn during play
- You win the moment the eighth flower arrives: your hand doesn't need to be complete or even ready
- Scored as a self-draw: all three opponents pay
- A limit hand: scored at the limit, no other fan added
How All Eight Flowers is scored
The fan below are computed live by the same scoring code the game uses — the tiles in hand don't matter at all.
Self-drawn
| All eight flowers (八仙過海) | Limit |
| Total | 10 fan · Limit |
|---|
Anything over 10 fan scores 10 (the limit).
| Situation | Fan |
|---|---|
| All eight flowers (All Eight Flowers) | Limit |
| Seven flowers, someone else draws the eighth (Seven Rob One) | Limit |
| One full set of four (Flower Set) | 2 fan |
| One flower of your seat (Own Flower) | 1 fan |
How it relates to other hands
- Seven Rob One: with seven flowers, if someone else draws the eighth you still win at once, and they pay.
- Flower Set: one full set of four is 2 fan. All eight flowers are never scored as two Flower Sets.
- Own Flower: each flower of your seat is 1 fan.
- Heavenly Hand: another win with no waiting — All Eight Flowers can also be complete right after the opening replacement.
All Eight Flowers odds
All eight flowers ending up with one player is very rare. Over 100,000 computer hands on this site, All Eight Flowers happened 3 times — roughly once every 33,000 hands; straight from the opening replacement it happened 0 times in 400,000 deals.
Even four or more flowers after the deal happens only 0.60% of the time per seat:
| Flowers after the opening replacement | Chance |
|---|---|
| 0 | 45% |
| 1 | 37% |
| 2 | 14% |
| 3 | 3.3% |
| 4+ tiles | 0.60% |
Source: 400,000 deals on this site (144 tiles with flowers; each seat counted after the opening flower replacement).
FAQ
How many fan is All Eight Flowers?
In Hong Kong mahjong All Eight Flowers is a limit hand, scored at the 10-fan limit with no other fan added.
Does my hand need to be complete?
No. You win the moment the eighth flower arrives, whatever your hand looks like.
Who pays for All Eight Flowers?
It's scored as a self-draw, so each of the other three pays 1 share.
What if I have seven flowers and someone else draws the eighth?
You still win — that's Seven Rob One, also a limit hand, paid by the player who drew it. You can see flower replacement in action at a table of online Hong Kong mahjong.
Related hands
Seven Rob One Limit
Seven flowers in front of you and someone draws the eighth — you win: a limit hand, who pays, and how it differs from All Eight Flowers.
Flower Set 2 fan
All four flowers of one set are 2 fan: how it combines with Own Flower, when it becomes All Eight Flowers, and how rare it is.
Own Flower 1 fan
Each flower of your own seat is 1 fan: which flowers belong to East, South, West and North, scoring two of them, and how often you get one.
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