Mahjong for Mobile: Best Apps for Casual and Competitive Play

The best mobile Mahjong apps for casual and competitive play, compared on supported rules, ranked modes, monetisation and interface quality.

Can You Learn Mahjong Faster Online or In-Person?

Learn Mahjong online or in person? Tutorials and fast repetition weighed against hands-on guidance, so you can pick the route that suits you.

A printable Mahjong rules cheat sheet for Chinese and Hong Kong style play, covering tiles, sets, turn order and scoring in one quick reference.

Taiwanese Mahjong beginner and advanced play compared: 16-tile hands, bonus tiles, calling strategy and defence, with worked examples of each.

Advanced tile efficiency tips: keep multiple waits, avoid over-calling and hold flexible shapes to lift your Mahjong win rate hand after hand.

A bad opening draw is not a lost hand. Stay flexible, drop isolated tiles and switch goals to salvage points from a weak Mahjong start.

How long a Mahjong game takes: one to two hours casual, two to four competitive, and what makes games drag or run fast.

Pung, Kong, Chow and beyond: the Mahjong terms every player should know, explained plainly so table talk stops feeling like a foreign language.

The most common mistakes new Mahjong players make, from chasing too many suits to calling tiles too early, and the simple fix for each one.

Teach Mahjong in a single game. A step-by-step approach that skips the lecture, starts with the goal, and lets hands-on play do the explaining.

All 81 scoring hands in Chinese Mahjong, grouped by point value from Pure Double Chow upward, as a reference you can check mid-game.

Basic scoring for Chinese Mahjong hands: how points are counted, how flowers and season tiles add up, and how to total a winning hand.

How Wind positions rotate counter-clockwise after every hand, what happens on a dead hand, and why sitting East is worth extra points.

A beginner’s guide to Mahjong basics: the tiles, the four-player setup, how a turn works and what you need to know to get your first game going.

Mahjong point counting compared, from Riichi to MCR, so you know exactly how scoring shifts when you move between variants.

The tiles are dealt, now what? Wind positions, flower and season replacements, and the turn order that gets a Mahjong game underway.

How to set up and deal a Mahjong game: picking the dealer, building and breaking the wall, and dealing hands, with photos and short clips.

Western Mahjong rules explained: the card, the jokers, the Charleston, and how this American adaptation diverged from the traditional Chinese game.

Chinese and Western Mahjong compared: how the tiles, jokers, the Charleston and the scoring rules differ, and which version suits your table.

New to Mahjong? A beginner’s guide to the 144 tiles, the four-player table and everything worth knowing before you sit down for your first game.

What Mahjong tiles mean: the symbolism behind bamboo, characters, circles, winds and dragons, and how each group is used during play.