Every tile is a wind or a dragon, and no suit tile appears at all.
Seven kinds of honor tile exist, four copies each, twenty-eight in total. This hand takes fourteen of them, half of every honor tile in the set, and the other players draw from the same pool.
What it scores
It pays the limit in two styles and comes close in the third.
| Style | Value |
|---|---|
| Hong Kong | a limit hand |
| Chinese Official | 64 points |
| Japanese riichi | yakuman |
Our Hong Kong sources give 10 faan in one and 64 points in another. Chinese Official scores it 64 of a possible 88, high but not the top tier. In riichi it is a yakuman whether the sets are concealed or claimed.
Built from other people's discards
This is one of the great hands you are allowed to claim your way into.
Because the sets may be exposed, a player who starts with two dragons and a pair of winds can call on every honor that hits the table. That is worth knowing from the other side too: once someone has two honor sets showing and has discarded nothing but numbers, the next wind you throw may be the one that finishes them.
In Hong Kong scoring the hand is also all triplets, but a limit hand takes no extra credit for the patterns inside it: the limit is the limit.
What it is confused with
Adding ones and nines to it makes a different hand, worth a fraction as much.
All Terminals and Honors, which Wikipedia's Hong Kong list calls Mixed Orphans, allows terminals alongside the honors. That sounds like a small concession and it is not: it takes the hand from the top of the table to 1 faan in Hong Kong play and 2 han in riichi.
Questions about All Honors
What is the All Honors hand in mahjong?
A winning hand containing only honor tiles, which means the four winds and the three dragons, with no numbered tile from any suit. It pays the limit in Hong Kong and riichi play, and 64 of a possible 88 points in Chinese Official.
Can All Honors be made from claimed discards?
Yes. Our sources allow the sets to be exposed, which matters, because only twenty-eight honor tiles exist and this hand needs fourteen of them.
Is All Honors the same as All Terminals and Honors?
No. All Honors bars every numbered tile. All Terminals and Honors allows ones and nines alongside the winds and dragons, and is worth far less.
Where this comes from
Checked against Tom Sloper's Hong Kong FAQ and his yaku list, Wikipedia on Hong Kong scoring and Japanese yaku, Mahjong Time's Hong Kong, Chinese Official and riichi pages, and Yellow Mountain Imports. The full list is on our mahjong hands page, and Japanese Mahjong explains what a han is worth.