Mahjong Guide

The rule says four players. The group chat says three people are free on Thursday. Or it’s just you and your partner, and you’d still like to touch the tiles. This comes up more than the official rules admit. American mahjong is written for a table of four, but most of us don’t live in…

My favorite thing about American mahjong isn’t the strategy. It’s the fact that a seventy-eight-year-old and a thirteen-year-old can sit at the same table and both be genuinely interested. Not one of them politely humoring the other. Both of them in it. That’s rarer than it sounds. Most family games split by age. Board games…