Mahjong Guide

You can learn the card, memorize the Charleston, and still sit down at a new table and get quietly corrected within five minutes. Not because you were wrong, but because that table does something a little differently than the one you learned on. Welcome to house rules, the layer of American mahjong that nobody prints…

Every newcomer asks the same question, usually after a hand they thought was dead suddenly lands a win, or a hand they built perfectly falls apart on the last draw. Is American mahjong luck or skill? People want a clean answer. The honest one is messier: it is both, and which one is running the…