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Can you play mahjong with 2 or 3 players?
Classic Chinese and Hong Kong mahjong is a four-seat game. House variants exist. Tilehaus keeps four chairs and fills empty ones with bots.
Why four seats
The wall, the deal (13 tiles, dealer 14), and claim priority (hu, then pong/kong, then chow from the left) are built for four. Cutting seats changes whose discard you can chow and how fast the wall empties.
What Tilehaus does instead
Start a four-player table with one, two, or three humans. Enable bots for empty chairs. Bots only choose from legal actions the engine already computed — they do not see hidden racks they should not see.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers to what people search — for Google, voice, and assistants.
How many players do you need for mahjong?
Four. Classic Chinese and Hong Kong mahjong is a four-seat game. Three-player tables exist as house variants with a shortened wall. Tilehaus fills empty chairs with bots so you can start without three friends.
Can you play mahjong with two or three players?
The designed game is four seats. Two- and three-player house rules exist, usually by removing tiles or using dead walls. On Tilehaus you still sit a four-seat table; bots take the empty chairs and only make legal claims.