Mahjong Guide

There’s a moment every American mahjong player hits eventually: you’re headed somewhere fun, and you realize the game would be better if your tiles were there too. A week at the beach. A visit to your sister who finally wants to learn. One of those cruise ship groups where the card table fills up by…

You sit down. Someone pushes a pile of tiles toward you, everyone else is already flipping theirs face-up and lining them up, and you’re holding a small混乱 of plastic you can’t quite read yet. We’ve all been there. Sorting your rack is the first real skill in American mahjong, and almost nobody explains it —…