God of Sparrow 太歲 — How the Game Works 遊戲機制百科 · mechanics reference

Overview 概覽

God of Sparrow 太歲 is a single-player Hong Kong mahjong roguelite. There are no opponents at the table — the "opponent" is a rising score target. Each round (a blind) you are dealt a fresh hand from a fresh wall, you draw and discard a limited number of times, assemble up to 4 melds + a pair on the board, and then Eat 食糊 once to score. Beat the target → you earn gold and visit the shop; miss it → the run ends.

Between blinds you build an engine: Charms 護符 (passive scoring modifiers, up to 3 slots), Consumables (gems, runes, scrolls, spirits; 2 held slots), Vouchers (permanent run upgrades), tile enhancements, editions and sigils. A run is 8 Winds 八圈 (antes) × 3 blinds each; the last blind of every Wind is a Boss with a rule-bending effect, and Wind 8 is a Final Boss.

Tiles & the Wall 牌與牌牆

Every blind builds a new 144-tile wall (seeded shuffle):

• 3 number suits × 9 ranks × 4 copies = 108: Characters 萬 (wan), Bamboo 索 (sok), Circles 筒 (tong).
• 7 honours × 4 = 28: winds 東南西北 and dragons 中發白.
• 8 flowers/seasons: Plum · Orchid · Chrysanthemum · Bamboo and Spring · Summer · Autumn · Winter. (The Flower Market wall adds 2 more.)
• Some walls (decks) remove or add tiles; Wild tiles 萬能牌 bought in the shop join your hand and count as any tile inside a meld.

Melds are validated exactly as in mahjong: Chow 上 = 3+ consecutive tiles of one suit · Pong 碰 = 3 identical · Kong 槓 = 4 identical · Pair 雀頭 = 2 identical. Honours can only form pongs/kongs/pairs. Wilds adopt the identity the meld needs.

Flowers are never melded. When you draw one it is set aside automatically (轉運 Changing Luck) and you get a free replacement tile from the tail of the wall. They matter for flower fan.

A Blind, Turn by Turn 一局流程

1. Deal. You receive 18 tiles (16 on the Big Eater wall), auto-sorted. The game guarantees an opening hand that has at least one legal play.
2. Resources. Each blind you get 6 draws 抽 (D) and 3 discards 棄 (X). A discard swaps up to 8 selected tiles at once — they are removed from the game and you immediately redraw the same number (free, does not consume a draw). Walls, stakes, vouchers and charms shift these numbers; unused draws pay out as gold at the end.
3. Tail draw 摸尾. The Dragon's Reach charm grants 1 draw per blind from the tail (dead wall) instead of the head.
4. Build. Select tiles and Place (Space) them into one of 4 meld slots or the pair box. Board tiles can be lifted back into hand and rearranged freely until you Eat. Suggest (A) shows legal melds in your hand (limited uses per blind; some bosses disable it).
5. Eat 食糊 (Enter). Scores whatever is on the board — see Scoring. You Eat once; it ends the blind. The button needs at least a pair on the board, and warns before an empty Eat.
6. Result. Score ≥ target → Blind cleared, gold is paid, the shop opens. Score < target → run over (the landing screen shows your stats; seeds let you retry the identical run).

Scoring 計分

The three tiers of hand

Per-meld fan 每副番

Whole-hand patterns 牌型 (complete hands only)

MAX = 20 fan (2²⁰ ≈ 1.05 million mult). Thirteen Orphans is the one hand with no melds: place the 13 terminals/honours as junk groups + one duplicate as the pair and it is recognised automatically at Eat (it scores from a 16-chip limit base). The displayed fan keeps climbing past MAX for the fireworks tiers (超凡 15 · 神級 20 · 超現實 25+); the multiplier itself is capped at 2⁴⁰, which no real hand reaches.

Flower fan 花番

Minimum fan gate 最低番

Later Winds demand a minimum fan for the 2^fan payout: 東1–東2: 0 · 南1–南2: 1 · 西1–西2: 2 · 北1–北2: 3 (+1 on the God of Gamblers stake and above). Below the gate a complete hand is a chicken hand. Because every winning hand carries the +1 self-draw, the gate only bites from the South round on.

Chips in detail

• Melds score as a whole — ranks do not add chips on their own; Chow 20, Pong 40, Kong 80, pair 0.
• Every scored tile adds its rank in chips (honours ≈ their index); a wild adds a flat 30.
• Enhancements (from scrolls): Foil +20 · Bonus +30 · Stone +50 chips; Mult +4; Glass ×2 mult (25% shatter); Steel ×1.5; Prismatic ×1.5; Gold +$1 held; Gilded +$1 when scored; Lucky (1/5: +20 mult, 1/15: +$3); Wild counts as any suit.
• Gems add permanent chips/mult to a meld type (e.g. Cinnabar for chows, Lapis for pongs). Editions on charms: Polished +50 chips · Holographic +10 mult · Chromatic ×1.5 · Negative +1 charm slot · Gilded +$3/round. Sigils on tiles: Gold (+$3 when scored) · Red (retrigger) · Blue (creates a gem) · Purple (creates a scroll when destroyed).
• Charms fire in named phases (on score, per meld, on draw, blind start/end…). Row order matters — neighbour charms read the charms beside them, and you can drag to reorder anytime before Place/Eat.

Run Structure 賽程

A run is 8 Winds — 東1 東2 南1 南2 西1 西2 北1 北2 — each with three blinds: Small Blind 小盲 (×1.0) → Big Blind 大盲 (×1.5) → Boss Blind 終局 (×2.0) of that Wind's base target. Clear the Wind-8 boss to win; the game then continues into endless with targets growing ×3.6 per Wind.

Targets are then scaled by the wall/stake you chose (e.g. Pearl Game +10% Small, Boss's Cut +30% Boss, Tea House +20% boss tribute), by some boss effects (a boss can replace the ×2), by the Ill Omen dice result (+10%), and by the Immortal Wall charm (+50% for infinite draws).

Seat wind 門風 is rolled by the dice at the start of each Wind; it decides which wind pong and which flowers are "yours" for fan. Round wind 圈風 is fixed by the Wind number (two Winds per direction).

Dice & Omens 擲骰

Before each new Wind you roll three dice. The total mod 4 sets your seat wind (1 = East, 2 = South, 3 = West, 0 = North). You may re-roll for $2 → $4 → $8. Special totals trigger omens:

The roll also lands on a hot zone of the wall that colours the deal: Flower Garden (+flower chance) · Dragon's Nest (dragons cluster) · Honour Vein (dense honours) · Cursed Stretch (tiles −2 base) · Golden Seam (+1 coin per tile drawn).

Bosses 終局

The third blind of every Wind is a Boss: the target doubles and a boss effect applies for that blind — fewer draws, a fan cap, pattern fan disabled, a tax on your lowest meld, tiles stolen from the wall, discards that cost gold, and so on. Bosses are drawn from a pool of 39 in four tiers gated by Wind (Tier I openers → Tier IV finishers); Wind 8 always draws a Final Boss. Each boss has a bilingual lore card and a cinema-poster portrait — the full list with effects is on the Item wiki, and every poster is on the art review.

Banes are persistent debuffs (from the Cursed Tomb and similar) — on the Night Game stake and above they become permanent; the Absolution charm nullifies them while held.

Economy & Shop 經濟與商店

Gold after a cleared blind

Interest cap and multipliers are raised by vouchers; the Barefoot wall has no interest at all. Gold can go into debt up to a voucher-defined limit.

The shop (Balatro-style cards: icon + price; tap a card for its full description)

• First shop of a run = the Pack Store: four chests — Copper Chest (4 items, pick 1), Gilded Coffer (4, pick 2), Treasure Trove (5, pick 2) and a starter archetype vault.
• Every later shop: 2 charms (rarity-weighted, never duplicates you own) · 2 consumables · 2 vouchers (tiered — some require an earlier voucher) · a Wild Tile for $4.
• Reroll starts at $5 and rises $1 per reroll (frozen by the Telescope voucher, free with Periscope); it resets every shop.
• Sell any owned charm for half its cost; sell a wild tile from your hand for $2. Drag to reorder charms in the sell column.
• Slots: 3 charm slots (Negative edition / vouchers add more) · 2 consumable slots. Stakes raise shop prices (+25% / +50%).

Items 道具 full lists on the item wiki

Walls & Stakes 牌牆與賭注

A wall is your deck choice; a stake is an additive difficulty ladder. Both are chosen on the run-setup screen; stakes unlock in order and each level keeps every modifier below it.

Controls 操作

While a score animation or deal is playing, every control goes inert (greyed) so a double-tap can't fire twice. On phones the game runs landscape-only. The first run offers a guided tutorial that spotlights each step; its callouts never cover what you need to tap.

Saves, Seeds & Unlocks 存檔與種子

• The run is saved to localStorage at every shop boundary; Continue Run on the landing screen resumes it. Volume and mute settings persist separately.
• Every random event flows through one seeded RNG (Mulberry32), so a seed reproduces the exact wall, shop offers, bosses and dice — the landing screen lets you enter or copy a seed, and a lost run can be retried identically.
• Stakes unlock in order by clearing the previous one; the top stake's reward is the title itself.