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Four sheets, one page each

The starter guide is fourteen pages, which is the right length to read and the wrong length to keep beside a rack. So here it is cut into four sheets, in the order you actually meet the game.

All five, one email

Where should we send them?

The four sheets and the fourteen-page starter guide, in one email you can forward to whoever is hosting. Then a short note now and then, timed for roughly when you would hit the thing it covers.

All five, in one email

One more click. We have sent you a confirmation email — open it and confirm, and the sheets follow straight after. It takes a second and it is what keeps this list clean.

If you would rather not

The rules themselves are all here without one — the guides are free to read, the forty drills need no account, and theone-page cheat sheet is printed straight onto its own page. It is the printable set that comes by email.

Sheet 1

Tiles & groupings

Your first look at a set

All 152 tiles, what to call them out loud, and the only legal ways to group them — with the dragon-suit pairings and the reason there is no chow.

In the email
Sheet 2

Setup & the Charleston

The first ten minutes of a game

Building the wall, why dice pick East, and all seven passes in order — including exactly when a blind pass is legal and how to stop the second Charleston.

In the email
Sheet 3

Reading the card

The wall most beginners hit second

The whole notation, what the colours actually mean, matching and opposite dragons, and a table that sends you to the right section from what you are already holding.

In the email
Sheet 4

Playing & claiming

Everything after the Charleston

Your turn in order, when a discard is still claimable, who wins when two people call it, the joker exchange, payments, and the dead-hand challenge.

In the email

When reading them is not enough

These sheets tell you the rules. The workbook asks you 105 questions about them — the exposures, the dead hands, the joker exchanges — and the answer key cites the rule behind every answer, so you can disagree with us and go and look.

See the rules workbook — $19
Where this comes from

Every rule on these sheets was checked against the American Mah-Jongg Association's rulebook and Tom Sloper's rules FAQ, which cites the League's own rulebook by page, and cross-checked against two unconnected teaching sources.

No hands, values or card arrangement are reproduced. You need your own current card from the League to play.