Mahjong Guide

Nobody warns you about this one. You spend your first few games learning the card, the Charleston, the calling, and then one afternoon the tiles in the middle simply run out. Someone says “that’s a wall game,” everyone shrugs, and the tiles get pushed together for a reshuffle. No winner. No points. The whole hand…

You sit down at your first American mahjong table and within five minutes you are completely lost. Someone calls pung, someone else announces a Charleston, and a third person is arguing about an exposure like it is the most normal thing in the world. It is not normal. Not yet. American mahjong has its own…