All posts in Chinese Mahjong Variants Explained

This is probably the single most useful comparison on the whole site, because it answers a question a lot of readers arrive with even if they don’t know how to phrase it: “is the way I learned to play the ‘real’ rules?” The honest answer…

This site focuses on Chinese Mahjong, primarily Hong Kong Old Style — not American Mahjong. But since the two are easy to confuse if you’ve encountered both socially, this comparison exists purely to clear up what’s different, not to teach American Mahjong itself. The Single…

Like our American Mahjong comparison, this article exists to clear up a common point of confusion — not to teach Riichi Mahjong. This site’s focus stays on Chinese Mahjong, primarily Hong Kong Old Style. The Core Structural Difference: Yaku Japanese Riichi Mahjong requires every winning…