Who pays whom
after a hand?
Settlement turns the four hand scores into the player-to-player changes for that hand, then adds each change to the running game totals.
A hand score is not a payment.
East scores 56; South wins with 60; West scores 40; North scores 44. The production settlement engine, not a page-only calculation, produces the transfers below.
Who pays whom
East paid South 120 — doubled because East was East
West paid South 60
North paid South 60
West paid East 32 — doubled because East was East
North paid East 24 — doubled because East was East
West paid North 4
Net change
Changes total zero.
In British / BMJA-style settlement, each loser pays the winner the winner’s score. Payments involving East are doubled where the rules require it, and non-winners also settle score differences with one another. Those separate transfers combine into one net change per player.
One hand versus the whole game
Settlement explains this hand. The tracker records it, updates running totals, then advances East, Wind and the next-hand state under the active rules. Final standings are the result of all confirmed hands, not a different payment calculation.