Active and Complete Rulesets
This section contains rulesets that are active or fully complete and playable.
Active Rulesets
These are rulesets where the rule's creators are committed to responding to clarification questions. They may be complete or under active development. If nobody replies to questions after a reasonable period of time, remove the page from this list.
Complete Rulesets
These are rulesets that are comprehensive and complete. They are ready to play with little clarification.
Play Online
These rulesets are available to play online:
Pieces
Rule Similarities
Variations
By Method
For Teaching
Played in Spaces
Played on Points
- Wiki Pai Sho - Basic game outlined on this site.
- Harmony Pai Sho - In this Pai Sho game you aim to get "harmony", (the concept of getting exactly 0 points) rather than winning the game with points.
- Elemental Pai Sho - A Pai Sho variation based on the Elements.
- Ancient Pai Sho - A variant where the goal is to be the player that causes the board to get to a target number of harmonies. has different rules for some of the special tiles and for tile placement
- Frank's pai sho rules - a variant based of of the original with some tweaks. winning can be achieved by capturing all flower and special tiles or obtaining a certain pre-set number of points.
- Modern Pai Sho - An elemental tile set, the goal is to move the white lotus to the center of the board.
- 3 Piece Pai Sho - played like chess, by trapping the opponents Iris Tile
- Lotus Pai Sho - Based on Buddhist lotus symbolism
- Pai Chi - Harmonic Game
- Skud Pai Sho - Comprehensive set of rules to make the game fun, competitive, and strategic
Either
- Kutai Pai Sho - The flower not only determines a harmony, but it's season as well
Incomplete
By Tile Set
"Standard"
- Tei Setsu Pai Sho (also Kaze No Pai Sho) - Possible variation played by air temple monks.
- Balance Pai Sho - A variant inspired by Nine Men's Morris and chess, though with very simple rules.
- Ippan Pai Sho - Played on a smaller 8x8 board
- Wiki Pai Sho - Basic game outlined on this site.
- Harmony Pai Sho - In this Pai Sho game you aim to get "harmony", (the concept of getting exactly 0 points) rather than winning the game with points.
- Ancient Pai Sho - A variant where the goal is to be the player that causes the board to get to a target number of harmonies. has different rules for some of the special tiles and for tile placement
- Frank's pai sho rules - a variant based of of the original with some tweaks. winning can be achieved by capturing all flower and special tiles or obtaining a certain pre-set number of points.
- 3 Piece Pai Sho - played like chess, by trapping the opponents Iris Tile(While this one uses different amounts of pieces from this set, It adds none)
- Pai Chi - Harmonic Game(Different names, that's all)
- Skud Pai Sho - Comprehensive set of rules to make the game fun, competitive, and strategic
Elemental
- Elemental Pai Sho - A Pai Sho variation based on the Elements.
- Modern Pai Sho - An elemental tile set, the goal is to move the white lotus to the center of the board. There is a relance under the name of PaiJo.
- Wielpaisho - A rank increasing version of Elemental.
Seasonal
- Kutai Pai Sho - The flower not only determines a harmony, but it's season as well
Other/Mix