Mahjong Guide

People talk about American mahjong as if it is one game with one rulebook. It is not. The tiles are identical, the card is shared, but the way a table actually plays can be totally different depending on where you are sitting and whose mother taught you. Spend a month visiting clubs and you start…

If you have been online much this past year, you have probably seen it. A clip of tiles clacking, a friend’s story from a game night, a cafe you like posting that it now hosts mahjong on Thursdays. Eighteen months ago almost nobody under forty I knew had touched a mahjong set. Now half of…