Mahjong Guide

Walk into any game shop and you’ll see them sitting side by side — same little rectangles, same dragons and winds, same satisfying clack when you shuffle. But here’s the thing nobody tells you up front: American mahjong and Japanese riichi are not the same game wearing different clothes. They share an ancestor and a…

You think you are just playing a game. Two hours pass, you look up, and you have laughed more than you did all week. The tiles are still warm from your hands. Something about American mahjong does that to people, and it is not only the winning. Players have been saying mahjong is good for…