Mahjong Guide

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…

You said yes to a game before you thought about it, and now you are parked at a table with 150-odd tiles in front of you and a card full of colored numbers that everyone else seems to understand. Nobody is moving yet. This is the part where new players freeze. So here is exactly…