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• page The card market

  Cards made by players and teachers, listed for anyone to take: free or for a price, the maker paid at the moment of sale.

• page The card library

  Every card the table can play, and how to bring your own in: scan the printed card or type it, and the validator checks every hand.

• rule Hands and the card

  A card is a set of winning hands. A hand is exactly 14 tiles, made of groups of identical tiles: Jokers substitute in groups of three or more, never in singles or pairs.

• lesson Reading a Mah Jongg card, part 1

  How the card writes a hand, what its colours mean, and where a joker can go. You build each hand. (4 minutes)

• lesson Reading a Mah Jongg card, part 2

  Dragons, the White Dragon, winds, runs that start on any number, and what a hand pays. You build each one. (4 minutes)

• page The kinds of hand on a mah jongg card

  The number hands (the year, 2468, 13579, 369), Any Like Numbers, Addition Hands, Quints, Consecutive Run, Winds and Dragons, Singles and Pairs: the kinds of hand an American Mah Jongg card is built fr

• article How to read the card

  The card is written in a notation nobody explains. Here is what every line is telling you, and how to find the two or three lines your tiles are already close to.

• article The card, and why it changes every year

  What stays the same on the annual card, what moves, where the printed card comes from, and how the school plays whichever card is in front of you.

• article The 2026 mah jongg card: which hands actually win

  We counted 33,607 hands played on the 2026 National Mah Jongg League card by the school's computer players. Two sections took more than half of all wins, one took almost none. What that means for the

• article The kinds of hand on a Mah Jongg card, in tiles

  Every kind of hand an American Mah Jongg card is built from, each with a full fourteen-tile example: the year, 2468, 13579, 369, like numbers, quints, runs, winds and dragons, and singles and pairs, w

• article The 2027 mah jongg card: when it comes out and how to get it

  When the National Mah Jongg League's new card usually goes on sale and arrives, how to order it online or by mail, what it costs, the large-print card, and how to get ready for a new card before it la

• page Lessons

  Ten lessons from the first tile to reading the card, each checked against the game engine.

• page Pricing

  Drills and practice against the bots for free; a subscription for tables with friends and every card.

• page Mahjongg School

  Play American Mah Jongg online free, no account needed, against opponents that never see your tiles. Lessons from the first tile, drills that score every decision, and a report card after every game.

• page A guide to our table

  What every part of the Mahjongg School table does: the card, the Coach and its suggestions, the row under your tiles and More, the warnings about a risky throw, Let the Coach play, the log and the set

• page Who you are playing against

  The three opponents you can sit down against at Mahjongg School: Daisy, who knows the rules but not the card; Vivian, who knows both but plays her own hand; and Mei Ling, who knows the card by heart a

• page American Mah Jongg practice drills

  Practise American Mah Jongg in five-minute drills: which tile to throw, which hand your tiles are closest to, how to build a hand from the card, and what to pass. Every answer checked at once.

• rule Dead hands

  A hand is dead when no hand on the card can still be completed. Two things close hands off: Exposures are irrevocable. Once a pung of five bams is face up, only hands containing a group that could be

• drill Three minutes, three strikes

  Name as many hands from the card as you can in three minutes. Three wrong answers and the game is over. Try to beat your best.

• rule Ending the hand

  A hand ends when someone completes a line on the card - either by drawing the tile themselves, or by claiming a discard for mahjong - or when the wall is exhausted.