Author: Connor Davis

Knowing the rules and playing well are two different skills, and the gap between them is where most of the actual enjoyment of Chinese Mahjong lives. This guide assumes you’re comfortable with the mechanics from our beginner’s guide and the scoring basics from our scoring…

Hand reading sounds like an advanced skill, but the core version of it is simple enough to start practicing in your very next game. This builds on the checklist introduced in our main strategy guide. What Discards Actually Tell You Players discard tiles they don’t…

This is one of the most common real-time decisions you’ll face, and it directly connects mechanics from our turn order and calling guide to the scoring stakes in our scoring guide. The Core Trade-Off Calling a discard for a pung or kong speeds up your…