The American Mahjong Learning Guide.

This is not a beginner cheat sheet. It is the guide your group has been wanting.

Most rules questions at the table get answered three different ways by four different players. This guide settles them, one elegant, comprehensive source you keep beside your set so everyone plays by the same rules. Written in Prim's voice and designed in The Order of the Tile^™'s cream-and-ink style, with original artwork created just for the guide, nothing borrowed, nothing to wade through.

What's inside

Fifty pages, organized the way a game actually unfolds, and a quick reference at the back for the questions that come up mid-hand.

• The tiles, and how a set is built
• Setting up the wall and the deal
• The Charleston, in full, both halves, blind passes, the courtesy pass
• Gameplay and the order of turns
• Claiming discards, pungs, kongs, quints, sextets
• Joker rules and the Finesse Move
• Concealed hands
• Scoring and payment
• Dead hands and misnamed tiles
• Special situations
• Table etiquette
• A Quick Reference Summary

Who it's for

Groups who want everyone playing by the same guide. New-card-season refreshers, when the rules questions resurface every April. Hostesses building a beautiful game-day setup. And gifts for the player who already has the set, the bag, and the cards, and would love the one thing that ties it all together. It prints beautifully at home on letter paper, or at any print shop; bind it, hole-punch it for a binder, or slide it into a folder and keep it by the table.