I remember my mother having weekly Mah Jongg games that rotated among the players’ homes. When it was her turn to host, she put out lots of yummy snacks, and I watched the women laughing and ...

Playing Mah Jongg can help break the ice and make it easy for shy folks to find friends who share a love of the game. The post Mah Jongg, Travel and Friendship appeared first on The Friendship Blog.

An American mah-jongg card. Mah-jongg is a rummy-like game played with tiles, rather than cards, according to the National Mah Jongg League. The game originated in China and was popularized in the ...

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 ...

Her theory as to why mah-jongg is such a hot game these days goes beyond the fun that people are having playing with the 152 tiles that make up the American version of the game, which began in ...

Devotees of the 19th-century Chinese tile-based game wait impatiently each year for the new National Mah Jongg League card. This year, they’ve had to do it twice.

The “Project Mah Jongg” exhibition, designed by Abbott Miller, a partner at Pentagram/New York, will be in the 1,000-square-foot hexagonal gallery of the pyramidlike Museum of Jewish Heritage ...

Last year, veteran mah-jongg player Rebecca Wittenberg, 56, decided to teach the game at her synagogue--Temple Beth Elohim in Brewster, N.Y. She has already taught about 25 men and women how to play.

Mah-jongg tiles are organized on a table at the Main Street Board Game Cafe in Huntington. Credit: Linda RosierMah-jongg is not as ancient as you might think.

Mah-jongg as an ‘intellectual’ sport and not a den of iniquity By KENTA MAEDA/ Staff Writer. December 31, 2023 at 07:00 JST ...