Scoring and paying

Start with the value on the card

Every hand lists a number. Traditionally it is in cents, so a hand marked 25 is worth a quarter. Only the winner is paid. The other three players pay, and nobody else scores anything.

Who pays what

How the hand was won	What happens
On a discard	The player who threw the winning tile pays double. The other two pay the value once.
Self-picked	The winner drew the tile from the wall. All three pay double.
No jokers	The whole payment doubles again. This does not apply to singles and pairs hands, which cannot use jokers anyway.

A worked example

You win a hand worth 25.

Situation	You collect
Won on a discard	50 from the discarder, 25 from each of the others. 100 in all.
Self-picked	50 from each player. 150 in all.
Self-picked, no jokers	100 from each player. 300 in all.

Why this changes how you play

The player who throws the winning tile pays twice what anyone else does. That is the whole reason for reading the table: late in a game, the tile you discard matters as much as the hand you are building.

Wall games and dead hands

If the wall runs out with no winner, nobody pays. If your hand was declared dead during the round, you still pay the winner like everyone else.