About TileTally

A good round of dominoes or an evening of mahjong usually comes with its own small pile of arithmetic. Who actually won that hand once the pips in everyone else’s tray are added up? How many tiles should be in this set to begin with, and is a piece missing from the box? What are the real odds of drawing a double in your opening hand? How long should each turn get in a timed match, and how does a bracket work out when nine people show up instead of eight? None of these questions are hard exactly, but doing them by hand, mid-game, while everyone waits, is where a fun night turns into a chore.

TileTally exists to take that arithmetic off the table. Instead of long rulebooks you have to dig through, the site is built around a set of small, single-purpose calculators, each aimed at one real moment in a game night. The Domino Scorekeeper tallies a round from the pips left in every hand, whether someone went out or play blocked. The Domino Set & Combination Counter works out exactly how many tiles belong in a double-six, double-nine, double-twelve, or larger set, and how many of them are doubles. The Domino Draw Probability Calculator uses the same hypergeometric math that governs any draw without replacement to work out the odds of drawing a given number of doubles into a hand. The Tile Game Timer runs a per-player time budget with an optional Fischer increment for timed matches. The Tile Tournament Bracket Generator builds a single-elimination bracket for any number of players, working out the byes and every matchup. And the Tile Inventory Tracker checks a counted pile of tiles against what a domino or mahjong set should contain, so a missing piece gets caught before the game starts, not halfway through it.

Beyond the calculators, the blog and learn section cover rules, scoring, regional variants, and the craft behind a set, and the Museum of Tile Games is a browsable collection of domino sets and history, mahjong tiles, tile games from around the world, and historic and artisan tile craftsmanship, with every entry, image, and fact drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

A few things worth stating plainly. TileTally is an independent site, not affiliated with any game publisher, tournament body, or manufacturer. It is supported by advertising, which is how the tools stay free with no account required. Every result the tools produce — a round score, a set size, a probability, a countdown, a bracket, a tile count — is a general calculation built on standard rules and the numbers you enter, not an official ruling; house rules vary from table to table, so check them with your group when it matters. This site is about the family and social side of tile games — there is no betting, wagering, or gambling content here. If something looks off in a tool or an article, or you think a calculator is missing that would help, the contact page is the place to say so.