In the U.S., the American version has been played with 152 rectangular tiles since 1937, when the National Mah-Jongg League was formed and codified the rules for the game.

In the U.S., the American version has been played with 152 rectangular tiles since 1937, when the National Mah-Jongg League was formed and codified the rules for the game.

Mahjong—which many American players spell Mah Jongg, thanks to the League—is a showcase of strategy and wits. Four players draw and discard tiles to complete specific tile patterns.

Each spring, an estimated 700,000 mah-jongg enthusiasts eagerly await the National Mah Jongg League's annual playing card. It's like the College Football Playoff bracket, the Grammy Awards and ...

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.

Mah-jongg tiles are organized on a table at the Main Street Board ... trying to put together one of numerous hands determined by the National Mah Jongg League, the arbiters of the American game. ...

Sadly, as happens with all fads, Mah Jongg's popularity began to wane, and it had all but petered out by the Great Depression. It wasn't until 1937 that the game was reintroduced to American society ...

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.

A group of experienced mah jongg players are offering a mah jongg tutorial at the Davis Senior Center in February. The group teaches American mah jongg using the National Mah Jongg League annual cards ...

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.