Stay-at-home lifestyles have further eroded the rough image of mah-jongg as a game played all night by crude characters in smoke-filled gambling dens. Families and friends of all ages are now ...

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. After playing ...

In an age when one often reads a novel by flipping the pages of an ebook or plays solitaire by dealing the cards on the screen, describing oneself as a “gamer” is typically preceded by the unspoken ...

Perhaps it was the memorable scene in 2018’s “Crazy Rich Asians” that sparked new interest in an old game. Or, maybe it was about a year later when Julia Roberts revealed to “The Late Show” host ...

Five years ago when a close friend told me she wanted to start a mah-jongg group and invited me join her, I immediately said yes. Sure, we were in our thirties, not our eighties, but I liked the idea ...

Jan Esquith is new to mah-jongg but not unfamiliar with the Chinese game of chance that in its American form is similar to the card game gin rummy. “When I was growing up in Burbank, I remembered my ...