Building blocks of Japanese Riichi Mahjong

Japanese Riichi Mahjong is a variant of Mahjong, a card game played with tiles on a table. This crate defines the fundamental game elements / building blocks of Standard Japanese Riichi Mahjong. Documentation will assume knowledge of basic game concepts but will also link to relevant wiki pages.

This crate is no_std by default; std is an optional feature.

What's Inside

tile: Tiles and utils

tile::Tile encodes the following kinds of tiles (total 37) used in a standard game:

• 3 suits x 9 numerals each
• 4 winds
• 3 dragons
• "red 5" for each suit (optional)

The following are explicitly excluded:

• Tiles not used in the Japanese variant (flowers, seasons, wildcards, etc.) --- may appear in other Mahjong variants.
• Red tiles other than 5's --- may appear in some non-standard Japanese Riichi Mahjong rules.

A tile can be encoded as a 6-bit integer (0..=36) or its common string shorthand (e.g. "1m", "2p", "3s", "4z").

Notable utils:

• tile::tiles_from_str parses a string shorthand (e.g. "11123m566778s22z") into an iterator of tiles.
• tile::t is a macro for creating a "tile literal" in code (e.g. t!("1m")).

tile_set: Multi- and single-sets of tiles

These can be used to represent any unordered set of tiles, such as a closed hand, a full winning hand, all waiting tiles of a waiting hand, and tiles discarded by a player.

• tile_set::TileSet37: multi-set; treats "red 5" tiles separately from "normal 5" (34 + 3 = 37 kinds)
• tile_set::TileSet34: multi-set; treats "red 5" tiles the same as "normal 5" (34 kinds)
• tile_set::TileMask34: single-set counting unique tiles; treats "red 5" tiles the same as "normal 5" (34 kinds)

meld: Tiles revealed and set aside from the closed hand.

meld::Meld includes:

• meld::Chii
• meld::Pon
• meld::Kakan
• meld::Daiminkan
• meld::Ankan

A meld can be encoded as a (non-zero) 15-bit integer; see meld::Meld::packed.

hand_group: groups of 3 tiles in the closed hand

hand_group::HandGroup includes:

• hand_group::HandGroup::Shuntsu ("123m")
• hand_group::HandGroup::Koutsu ("555z")

A hand group can be encoded as a 6-bit integer; see hand_group::HandGroup::packed.

player

player::Player = 0/1/2/3 (mod-4 arithmetics), representing the players initially seated at the East/South/West/North positions respectively at the start of a game. This can be used to also represent the "relative-player mod 4".

wall

See [mod-level docs][wall] for the convention on representing the wall of tiles.

• wall::Wall represents a standard 136-tile wall.
• wall::PartialWall represents a wall with some tiles unknown.

Note that these are intended to represent the complete wall, without considering the effects of dealing, drawing, or any kind of revealing. To this end, utils are provided for indexing different parts of the wall (deal, normal draw, dora indicators, kan draws).

Optional Features

serde (default: enabled)

Defines a JSON-centric serialization format for most of the types.

std (default: disabled)

This crate is no_std by default. Use this to enable std support.

Notably, when used with serde, this enables deserializing tile::Tile from String.