Mahjong

David Pritchard is a games consultant and former games director of the Mind Sports Olympiad. He is the former editor-in-chief of Games & Puzzles magazine.

introduction 1 - the mahjong set the basic set / supplementary tiles / accessories 2 - preliminaries seating / building the walls / breaking the walls / the deal 3 - playing the game know your tiles / object of the game / sets / procedure / the goulash / etiquette 4 - scoring and settlement the basic score / scoring a hand / settlement / scoring variations 5 - special hands merits of special hands 6 - infringements and penalties inaccuracies / letting off a cannon / infringements 7 - elementary strategy luck or skill? / sample hands / discards / general hints 8 - advanced strategy opening phase / middle phase / end phase / calling / improving your hand 9 - mahjong for two, three, five or six players mahjong for two players / mahjong for three players / mahjong for five players; mahjong for six players 10 - american mahjong cleared-hand game / one-double game / the national mahjongg league / the charleston / the american mahjongg association / the wright-patterson group 11 - japanese mahjong 12 - other variant forms the modern chinese game / taiwanese mahjong / mahjong in south-east asia / oddities 13 - mahjong cards 14 - history origins / the great mahjong boom / superstitions taking it further further reading / websites glossary index