Articles about Mahjong — Page 4

Types & Variants

Types of Mahjong: every branch of the game explained

September 10, 2026 · The Editors

Two different games answer to the same name. One is a four-player table game with a wall of stacked tiles, a discard pile and…

Tiles & Set

December 5, 2025 · The Editors

Four people, a flat surface and 144 tiles will get a game going. Everything else on the list below exists to remove bookkeeping from…

Types & Variants

December 5, 2025 · The Editors

Three formats cover almost every tile board you will open in a browser: the classic stacked layout, the flat connect grid, and the rotating…

History & Culture

December 5, 2025 · The Editors

The best facts about this game are the ones that can be checked, and the checkable ones are stranger than the folklore. A state…

Learn to Play

December 5, 2025 · The Editors

The short version, stated before anything else: regular play is a demanding, sociable hobby with some encouraging research behind it, and it is not…

Learn to Play

December 5, 2025 · The Editors

Two different games share the name Mahjong, and a guide that quietly mixes them will teach you neither. One is the four-player table game…

History & Culture

December 5, 2025 · The Editors

The Western stereotype is very specific: four older women at a card table with a printed hand card propped between them. It is not…

History & Culture

July 12, 2025 · The Editors

144Mahjong.com has been rebuilt, and this note records what actually changed for somebody who comes here to clear a board. The catalogue has been…

History & Culture

July 10, 2025 · The Editors

Mahjong took its present shape as a four-player tile game in the Yangtze delta some time around the middle of the nineteenth century. That…

History & Culture

July 10, 2025 · The Editors

Card games photograph badly and tile games photograph well. Four faces around a square table, thirteen tiles hidden from three of them, one discard…