Your first game of Mahjong
More than a game, mahjong brings people together: strategy, luck and conversation that have been part of Chinese daily life for generations.
144 tiles
Three suits, winds, dragons, and flowers in many sets.
Played everywhere
Living rooms, teahouses and parks, with rules that change from city to city.
Big in America
American mahjong has its own card of winning hands, renewed every year.
Learn in three steps
1. Meet the tiles
Get to know the suits, honors and special tiles.
Your hand
⇄Draw
2. Draw and discard
Take a tile, choose one to discard, and keep building your hand.
Pung
Run
Pair
3. Complete your hand
Make four sets and one pair to call mahjong.
The full beginner rules
- Each player builds a wall of 36 tiles. The dealer rolls dice to choose where to break the wall.
- Everyone takes 13 tiles. The dealer takes 14 and discards first.
- Play goes counter-clockwise: draw one, discard one.
- Pung: take any discard to complete three of a kind. Chow: take a discard from the player on your left to complete a run.
- Win with four sets and a pair. Agree on scoring before you start.
One set. Everything to begin.
Hand-picked sets are on the way.
