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The Birthday Card Deck for American Mahjong

The whole set, dressed for a party.

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All 156 tiles as printable playing cards. Cricut cuttable, for an easy print and cut. Lighter to travel, easier to pack. Drawn for a birthday. Cupcakes for the Dots, one big one with a candle on the One. Lit candles on every Bam. Curls of ribbon on the Craks. A party horn unrolling toward each wind, a star pinata and a donkey pinata for the Red and the Green dragon, the birthday cake for the Soap, the tied blindfold for the Black, eight balloons for the flowers, and a clown for the Joker, seen from behind so nobody has to look at his face.

Every card says what it is. The number sits in the same corner on every card, hot pink with a teal outline, and the suit is written along the bottom, so a first-timer can count the cupcakes and play the hand.

Perfect for the birthday girl's game, whatever the number on the cake. A mahjong birthday party, with the guide on the table for the friend who sort of knows. A birthday gift for the friend whose table you sit at every Tuesday. And teaching, since the suit is written on every card.

The Birthday Solution Card holds ten ready made birthday solutions and two bonus Black Dragon hands. The ten: Make a Wish, The First Birthday, Sweet Sixteen, Twenty One, The Big Three-O, The Big Five-O, Sixty Five, Two Pinatas, Blow Out the Candles and A Row of Candles. The two bonus hands: One Big Breath, and Over the Hill. Make a Wish spells it out in tiles. They are not from any league card. Your NMJL card and your rules do not change.

The same deck plays online here any day of the year. Choose Birthday under Tile style and every game on the site wears it.

What's inside

• Cricut Print Then Cut files: 18 front sheets and one back sheet as PNG, nine cards a sheet, 300 dpi
• Scissors version: the same deck on 36 US Letter pages, poker size, backs after every page of faces, cut marks, PDF
• The table guide: a half-page card that says what every tile is, two to a page
• The Birthday Solution Card and its solutions page, each its own PDF: ten ready made birthday solutions, plus two bonus Black Dragon hands, every hand drawn out in tiles
• Every face and the back as a PNG with transparent corners, 52 files
• How to play American Mahjong with the cards, two pages
• A How to Print page
• The deck: 4 of every suit tile (108), 4 of each wind (16), 4 of each dragon (16), 8 flowers, 8 Jokers. 156 cards
• Now with the Black Dragon expansion: four Black Dragons, the blindfold, and two more hands on the solution card

The Order of the Tile^™ is an independent publisher and is not affiliated with the National Mah Jongg League. This guide does not reproduce the NMJL card.

On ownership. Every guide and printable here is Prim's own original work, yours to keep, print, and enjoy at your own table. It is not yours to sell, share, give away, or reproduce for anyone else. However, if you have an idea for how we might partner, I would love to talk with you about it. Do write to [email protected]. © 2026 The Order of the Tile. All rights reserved, gently but firmly. Read the full license →