A group of experienced mah jongg players are offering a mah jongg tutorial at the Davis Senior Center in February. The group teaches American mah jongg using the National Mah Jongg League annual cards ...

Verdict This isn’t the game mah jong players were waiting for on XBLA, but it works as advertised and will tide people over until something better comes along. The lack of avatar support is ...

Images of smoky late night mah-jongg dens packed with gamblers slamming down tiles with noisy abandon are best left to the movies. At the Matsumi-Gakuen free school in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, ...

Four women stare down at bone-white game pieces in their hands. Plastic tiles clatter and clink in the center of the table. The players gaze over wooden racks with plastic arms that hold a ...

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 ...

Mah-jongg, a game in which players match or sequence sets of tiles, is often referred to as China’s “national pastime.” However, its rise as a globally beloved game has roots somewhere else: in the ...