Mahjong Guide

Most of what you need to play American mahjong is printed on the card. The hands are there. The scores are there. What the card can’t teach you is how to actually think at the table, and that’s the part that separates the people who keep improving from the people who stay stuck. The good…

American mahjong, the version with the annual card and the Charleston, feels like one fixed game. It isn’t. Walk into different communities and you’ll find the same tiles played with different rules, different rhythms, and different stories attached. If you’ve only ever played NMJL-style, meeting these cousins is a fun way to see how flexible…