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MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine MCP Server

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MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 11 Nov 2026.

Query American NMJL, Chinese Official MCR (81 Fan) & Japanese Riichi Mahjong scoring rules.

Uptime history 4 days of history
4 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
128 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 11 Nov 2026

What changed 14

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 10 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

10 Nov 4 tool descriptions were rewritten5 times that day check_nmjl_joker_legality, check_riichi_furiten_and_yaku, lookup_american_charleston_sequence and 1 more
10 Nov 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for5 times that day check_nmjl_joker_legality, check_riichi_furiten_and_yaku, lookup_american_charleston_sequence and 1 more
10 Nov 3 tools appeared check_nmjl_joker_legality, check_riichi_furiten_and_yaku, lookup_american_charleston_sequence
10 Nov a tool changed version
and 2 more, back to 10 November 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://mahjonghandbook.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mahjonghandbook.com/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://mahjonghandbook.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mahjonghandbook.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mahjonghandbook.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

lookup
lookup_american_charleston_sequence
Retrieve exact pre-game tile passing directions (Right, Across, Left), blind pass rules, and Courtesy Pass negotiation steps prior to the first discard in American Mahjong.
lookup_mahjong_scoring_rules
Compare high-level regional ruleset structures (tile deck size 136 vs 144 vs 152, hand length, and minimum Fan/point entry thresholds) across American, Chinese MCR, Japanese Riichi, and Hong Kong Mahjong. Do not use for Charleston passing steps, NMJL Joker meld legality, or Riichi Furiten checks.
nmjl
check_nmjl_joker_legality
Validate whether an American Mahjong Joker tile can legally substitute inside a specific meld size (1 to 6 tiles) and retrieve exposed Joker live-turn swap rules.
riichi
check_riichi_furiten_and_yaku
Evaluate Japanese Riichi Mahjong discard/temporary Furiten Ron restrictions and verify whether a hand satisfies the mandatory 1-Yaku win condition independent of Dora.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mahjonghandbook.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 163 ms 8 min ago

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MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_nmjl_joker_legality, check_riichi_furiten_and_yaku, lookup_american_charleston_sequence, lookup_mahjong_scoring_rules. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 128 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine need an API key?
No. MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine?
It answers our handshake in 128 ms on average, which is faster than 88% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is MahjongHandbook — American NMJL, MCR & Riichi Mahjong Scoring Rules Engine open source?
We cannot say either way: 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.