Mahjong Guide

There’s a moment in every American mahjong game where the tiles go quiet and someone says, “Okay, who had what?” That’s the scorecard doing its job — or, more often, not doing it, because nobody wrote anything down three hands ago. If you’re new to the game, the scorepad can feel like a second rulebook….

Ask any group of regular players what they believe about luck, and you will get a smile first. Then they will tell you. Every table I have sat at has at least one little habit nobody can quite explain, and everybody quietly respects it. None of this changes the math. All of it changes how…