Your Result: Chinese or Japanese Mahjong

You answered like a Chinese or Japanese table. The two are close enough to share a shopping list, and different enough that it is worth knowing which one you are buying for.

Chinese or riichi?

Chinese classic	144 tiles, including flowers and seasons. Scoring rewards the pattern you complete.
Japanese riichi	136 tiles, no flowers. Adds the riichi declaration, dora indicators and a yaku requirement, the style most online apps teach.
Playing both?	A 166-tile hybrid set carries the seasons a Chinese game uses and the jokers an American game needs. Worth knowing if your table is mixed.
Neither uses	Jokers, racks, pushers, or an annual card of hands.

If you learned on an app, you almost certainly learned riichi. Sitting down to a physical riichi table for the first time, the thing that catches people out is not the rules, it is scoring by hand, without the app adding it up for you.

What to look for in a set

Tile count	Check whether flowers and seasons are included: that is what separates a 144-tile set from a 136-tile one.
Tile size	Riichi play is faster and more compact; Chinese play suits a larger tile.
Engraving	Clear suit markings matter more than decoration once you are reading discards across the table.
A mat	Quietens the shuffle and saves your table. Worth it before anything else.

Where to go from here

Chinese mahjong sets → Riichi sets → Mats and accessories →

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