Want to learn to play American Mah Jongg? In five daily classes, learn the fundamentals of American Mah Jongg in an online course with teachers Donna Gibbon and Alicia Eissler. Classes will focus on ...

UPDATE (March 16) — In support of efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, we have postponed this class. Please sign up for our e-newsletter to receive updates on rescheduled classes. Learn more » ...

Mostly Benign but Watch Out! When Mah Jongg was introduced from China to the US in the ‘20s, the game was basically a simplified version of Chinese Mah Jongg. Different regions of China had different ...

Five bam. Flower. Two crak. Soap. West. Nine dot. Call – Mah Jongg! Sounds like secret code, but it’s what you might hear when you walk into a room where American Mah Jongg is being played. The game ...

If you play American Mah Jongg, I suspect you are looking forward to the 2023 card (that is, the National Mah Jongg League’s Official Standard Hands and Rules for 2023) as much as I am. After playing ...

Jan Esquith is new to mah-jongg but not unfamiliar with the Chinese game of chance that in its American form is similar to the card game gin rummy. “When I was growing up in Burbank, I remembered my ...

Last February, my friend Fiona texted a question to me and two other friends: Who wants to learn how to play mah-jongg? None of us — a group of millennial moms in our late 30s and early 40s — had ever ...