Mahjong Guide

There is a moment every American mahjong player hits, usually around their twentieth game. You are staring at your rack, the wall is nearly gone, and you realize you have been one tile away from a hand for the last eight draws. Meanwhile the person across from you, who you were sure was lost, quietly…

You can learn the card, memorize the Charleston, and still sit down at a new table and get quietly corrected within five minutes. Not because you were wrong, but because that table does something a little differently than the one you learned on. Welcome to house rules, the layer of American mahjong that nobody prints…