Mahjong as something you do with other people. Hosting a night at home, the etiquette that keeps a table friendly, cafes and clubs worth visiting, turning the game into a weekly ritual, and why it is finding a new audience among younger players. Includes practical pieces on playing in small apartments and running mahjong as a team-building session.
The hosting material is specific: a run sheet for the evening, what to do about space, noise and storage in a flat, and how to hold a table where the ages range by fifty years. Other pieces look at why some groups become standing fixtures and others fade after a month, what to expect walking into a mahjong café for the first time, and how the game compares with poker and with brain-training apps.
