Is the Pai Gow Tiles trainer free?

Yes. The trainer is free, runs in your browser with play money, and needs no signup. It is built for practice only.

How do you play Pai Gow Tiles?

You are dealt four Chinese dominoes from a 32-tile set and split them into two hands of two tiles each. The higher-scoring pair automatically becomes your high hand and the other becomes your low hand. Your two hands are compared to the dealer's two hands. Win both to win the bet, win one and lose one to push, and lose or tie both to lose. Ties on a single hand go to the banker.

What is Gee Joon in Pai Gow Tiles?

Gee Joon is the two-tile combination of the 1-2 and 2-4 dominoes. Played together they form the single highest-ranking hand in the game. Played apart, each tile is semi-wild and can count as either 3 or 6 points, whichever scores higher for that hand.

What are Wongs and Gongs?

A Wong is the Teen (6-6) or Day (1-1) tile paired with any 9-point tile, scoring 11. A Gong is Teen or Day paired with any 8-point tile, scoring 10. Both outrank every ordinary point hand but rank below the 16 named pairs.

What strategy does the trainer use?

The trainer grades your split against the Wizard of Odds power-rating method: for each of the three ways to pair four tiles, add the published power rating of the resulting low hand and high hand, and set the tiles the way with the highest combined rating. Played this way the house edge runs a little over 2 percent.

Pai Gow Tiles Trainer | Free Chinese Dominoes Practice

Place your bet Pick a chip, then deal.

Dealer

High hand

Low hand

Your tiles · tap two into the first hand

Hand A

Hand B

Tap tiles to move them between Hand A and Hand B. Keys 1–4 toggle a tile, S sets, C clears.

Bet

$1,000

Bankroll

Set Accuracy

Hands

Net

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Recent Hands

Played hands show up here with your four tiles, whether you set them the recommended way, and the result.

Pai Gow Tiles is played with 32 Chinese dominoes. You get four tiles and split them into two hands of two; the higher-scoring pair is automatically your high hand. The trainer grades your split using the Wizard of Odds power-rating method: for each of the three ways to pair four tiles, add the published win-probability rating of the resulting low hand to the rating of the resulting high hand, and set the tiles the way with the highest combined score.

How a hand scores

PairOne of 16 named pairs. Any pair beats any non-pair, no matter the pip count. Gee Joon (the 1-2 and 2-4 tiles together) is the single best hand in the game.
WongTeen (6-6) or Day (1-1) paired with any 9-point tile. Scores 11 — below every pair, above every Gong.
GongTeen or Day paired with any 8-point tile. Scores 10.
PointsEverything else: add the pips on both tiles and drop the tens digit, exactly like baccarat. Best possible is 9, worst is 0.

Gee Joon: the wild pair

The 1-2 tile normally counts 3 points, and the 2-4 tile normally counts 6. Played apart in a mixed hand, either one is semi-wild: it can count as 3 or 6, whichever gives the higher score. A 1-2 next to a 5-6 (11 pips) scores 7, not 4, because the 1-2 flexes to 6.

Played together, the 1-2 and 2-4 form Gee Joon, the highest-ranked pair in the game — even though individually these two tiles rank dead last on the tie-break ladder.

The 16 named pairs, highest to lowest

Pair rank has nothing to do with pip count — it follows a fixed order that must be memorized. From best to worst: Gee Joon, Teen (6-6), Day (1-1), Yun (4-4), Gor (1-3), Mooy (5-5), Chong (3-3), Bon (2-2), Foo (5-6), Ping (4-6), Tit (1-6), Look (1-5), then the four mixed "chop" pairs — Chop Gow (nines), Chop Bot (eights), Chop Chit (sevens), and Chop Ng (fives).

Eleven of the sixteen use two identical tiles; the other five, including Gee Joon, pair two different tiles that share the same total.

Ties and copies

Equal score, different tiles. The hand holding the higher-ranked individual tile wins. That ranking follows the same 16-pair order, except the Gee Joon tiles rank lowest of all when used alone.
True copy. If the score and the high tile are both identical, the banker wins the hand.
0-0. A hand that scores zero always loses to a banker hand that also scores zero — the high-tile rule does not apply.

Why the power-rating method

Pai Gow Tiles strategy has no clean rule like blackjack’s basic strategy chart — the correct split depends on comparing three concrete two-tile hands against each other. The Wizard of Odds publishes a power rating for every possible two-tile hand: the probability it beats an opponent’s hand of the same type. Summing the low and high ratings for each of the three splits and taking the best total is the Wizard’s own recommended shortcut for finding a strong split without memorizing a giant exception table.

Played this way in this trainer’s own simulation, the house edge runs a little over 2 percent, close to the roughly 2.4–2.7 percent a casino’s own house way plays to.

Common mistakes

Splitting a strong pair for no reason. Most named pairs should stay together. Only a handful of pairs are worth breaking, and only when the leftover two tiles form a genuinely strong second hand.
Forgetting the Gee Joon flex. Played alone, a Gee Joon tile is worth 3 or 6, not a fixed value — always check both.
Ignoring Wongs and Gongs. A Teen or Day tile paired with the right 8 or 9-point tile is worth more than most ordinary point hands, even ones that score 9.
Chasing the wrong hand. Since you must win both hands to win the bet, a split that makes one hand great and the other hopeless is usually worse than a balanced split.

Rules, tile ranking, and power ratings from the Wizard of Odds: Pai Gow Tiles.

About this Pai Gow Tiles trainer

Pai Gow Tiles is one of the oldest games on the casino floor, played with a set of 32 Chinese dominoes instead of cards. You are dealt four tiles and split them into two hands of two tiles each; unlike Pai Gow Poker, you never decide which hand is high and which is low — the stronger pair is automatically your high hand. Your two hands are then compared to the dealer's two hands. Win both and you win the bet minus a 5 percent commission, win one and lose one and it pushes, and lose or tie both and you lose. About 41 percent of hands push, which is part of why the game has a reputation for stretching a bankroll a long way.

How the trainer works

Each hand deals your four tiles. Tap two of them into Hand A; the other two form Hand B, and the trainer works out for itself which pair is actually the high hand and which is the low hand once you set. When you set, the trainer compares your split to a Wizard of Odds power-rating strategy and tells you whether you matched it, then explains the tile-ranking rule behind the recommended play. The dealer's tiles are then revealed and set the same way, and both hands are compared so you can see exactly how the result came out.

Why setting is graded, not the result

A correctly set hand can still lose, and a lucky split can win on a bad read of the tiles. The trainer grades the decision you control — how you split your four tiles — against a published strategy, not the outcome of the hand. Your accuracy number tracks how often your split matches that strategy, while the bankroll and net figures show how the math plays out over time, commission and all.

Practice only

This is a free practice tool that uses play money and keeps nothing between sessions. There is no signup, no wager, and no real gambling. Use it to get comfortable with Gee Joon, Wongs, Gongs, and the sixteen named pairs before you sit down at a real table.