Mahjong Guide

Every game has a learning curve, and American mahjong has one of the steeper ones. Not because the rules are hard to read, but because the habits that trip people up are sneaky. You can know the card inside out and still lose half your hands to small, repeatable errors. Here are the mistakes new…

You finally build the hand, you call Mahjong, the table stops, and then comes the question nobody prepared you for. How much did you just win? In American mahjong the answer is never whatever feels right. It is printed on the card, and there is a floor under it that trips up more new players…