Every episode
The whole run, newest first. Press play on any of them right here; nothing asks you to go anywhere else first.
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The Price of a Title
October 22, 2026
Episode 32
The whole weekend folded itself into a single word, said a little too fast by someone whose hands were not quite steady. In The Draw, Prim marks a first: the player lifting the trophy was a man, and the game gave him a new word, a King.
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The Ballroom
October 15, 2026
Episode 31
The night before is when nothing has gone wrong yet. Every rack is still perfect.
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Play It Out
October 8, 2026
Episode 30
The dead hand is not a hand with nothing left to do. It is a hand with a different job.
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Dear Diary
October 1, 2026
Episode 29
The woman who always seems to know is not reading minds. She is reading the middle, and Prim would like to retire the legend gently, because it keeps good players from becoming better ones.
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Fortune Favors the Prepared Rack
September 24, 2026
Episode 28
The coin in a particular pocket, the tile turned just so before the Charleston, the friend who will never sit north to start. Prim is fond of every charm at the table, and this week she says the quiet thing out loud: superstition is a system with the serial numbers filed off.
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A Different Game
September 17, 2026
Episode 27
Four women sit down at one table with identical tiles, an identical card and identical seats, and not one of them is playing the same game. This week Prim spends every section on that one assumption.
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The Real Season
September 10, 2026
Episode 26
Prim learned about the turn of the season from her uncle's bees. A hive that divides in the middle of summer rebuilds.
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The Third Half
September 3, 2026
Episode 25
A hive split at the end of summer, and somebody asked whether what was left on the branch was the third half. It was not. It was a quarter, and that turned out to be the whole issue.
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Hey, Lucky Lady!
August 27, 2026
Episode 24
Luck owns the wall and nothing else. Prim on the art of the pivot, why hesitation is the only genuinely unlucky thing at a mahjong table, and the woman with two thousand Tuesdays behind her who is still better than you.
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That's a Foot Wedge!
August 20, 2026
Episode 23
Her grandfather knew every clause of the golf rulebook, which is exactly why he could move a ball and call it fair. Prim asks what that permission means at a Mahjong table.
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The game seats four. This table seats more.
August 13, 2026
Episode 22
August is when you find out what you actually chose. The ambitious plans did not survive the season. The standing Monday game nobody ever wrote down did.
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The Guilty Party Is Herself
August 6, 2026
Episode 21
Thursday arrived without her, and Prim is not sorry. Five months into the card, knowledge hardens into habit, and habit bends your neck down while three players tell you everything.
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Prim knows a fake when she sees one
July 30, 2026
Episode 20
A white and gold set is going around online at a jaw-dropping price and the room cannot agree whether it is real. The three tests a genuine vintage set can never fail.
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We have been watching
July 23, 2026
Episode 19
To be watched, at the right table, is to be cared for. The Order's first live group game, the hostess nobody thanks, and the butterscotch sets keeping the record since the 1940s.
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The Open Door
July 16, 2026
Episode 18
The table is getting younger and easier to sit down at. The men now reading in growing numbers, a tile card that names every tile in plain letters, and the phone question settled.
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The world plays its game this week. We play ours.
July 9, 2026
Episode 17
Glory is loud, belonging is quiet, and only one of them is in the room when the noise stops. The Quints return on the 2026 card, and traveling tables turn restaurants into salons.
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What happens at the table, we tell.
July 2, 2026
Episode 16
Four women played American Mahjong for forty-eight hours straight, chasing a world record for charity. Plus the free skill that wins games: counting what is still alive.
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Some tables keep secrets. Ours keeps score.
June 25, 2026
Episode 15
The whole world has decided, all at once, to play. Why Mahjong stopped being a trend and became the main event, and why the loneliest tile on your rack is a bird.
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The table is open. Pull up a chair.
June 18, 2026
Episode 14
Now that everyone has pulled up a chair, what do we do with a fuller table? The correction newcomers need, and the summer shift from reading the 2026 card to playing it.
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The season's most interesting hand has been dealt.
June 11, 2026
Episode 13
Club searches up thousands of percent, and the financial press calling the Mahjong table the third place of the moment. Prim's read: not a fad, a homecoming.
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Consider yourself informed
June 4, 2026
Episode 12
The 13579 section rewards the player who has done the math, and the odd numbers are not as rare as they feel. Plus the real reason Americans call the White Dragon Soap.
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Nothing at the table escapes notice.
May 28, 2026
Episode 11
Winds and Dragons is about supply, not strategy, and the read has to happen earlier than almost any other section. Tile scarcity, jokers, and the defensive read.
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At This Table, We Remember.
May 21, 2026
Episode 10
On the Thursday before Memorial Day, Prim sets strategy aside for the wartime Mahjong circles that held a generation together. Then the hand that cannot close.
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The best discard is the one no one expects.
May 14, 2026
Episode 9
Prim's Mother's Day issue. The backup hand, the unglamorous concept that wins the most games on the 2026 card, and four principles for teaching without overwhelming.
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The wall has been read.
May 7, 2026
Episode 8
The week after National Mahjong Day, Prim reads the wall and makes the case that 2468 is where games are quietly won. Plus Elaine Sandberg, handed mother to daughter.
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Every discard tells a story.
April 30, 2026
Episode 7
National Mahjong Day: a hundred thousand players building walls at the same moment. Every discard tells a story, and the winners are the ones reading them.
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What a Joker.
April 23, 2026
Episode 6
The joker is the most powerful and most argued-about object on your rack. All eight of them explained, plus the Consecutive Pairs hand that cannot call a single tile.
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Patience is not a virtue. It is a strategy.
April 16, 2026
Episode 5
Why Singles and Pairs is the most underrated section on the 2026 card, and the beautiful trap hiding in Hand 6. Plus Prim's undiplomatic take on the racking debate.
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A new card. A new season. Same Prim.
April 9, 2026
Episode 4
The game has been here a century and this year everyone noticed. From Charlotte to a Dallas club that closed because too many wanted in, and whether where you play changes how you play.
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The Tiles Don't Lie. Neither Does Prim
April 6, 2026
Episode 3
Someone is selling counterfeit NMJL cards and too many players are buying them. Why the joker is sovereign on the 2026 card, 52 of 55 hands, and what any two numbers really means.
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The Charleston Never Lies
March 26, 2026
Episode 2
The Charleston is the most revealing ritual in American Mahjong: three passes that tell you everything before a tile is drawn. Three strategies for the 2026 card.
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The Season has Begun.
March 19, 2026
Episode 1
The very first dispatch. The 2026 card landed on March 17th, and Prim offers her opening read on what it is telling us, and what most players are not yet hearing.
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