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A 160 tile American set in magenta acrylic, light enough to carry between houses without giving up the full size of the tile.
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Mahjong groups rarely meet in the same place twice. The set goes in a car, up a flight of stairs, onto somebody's dining table and back again. That journey is what wears equipment out, and it is the reason weight matters more than most listings admit.
At two and a half kilos this is a set one person carries in one hand while holding a door. It does that without dropping to travel sized tiles, which is the usual compromise and the one people regret.
The phrase appears on a lot of listings and usually means nothing. Here it means the tile is 31.5 mm tall and 16 mm deep: a hand sized object with enough mass to be placed deliberately, not a miniature that slides when the table is knocked.
It also means the set is cut to the American count, with the joker complement the National Mah Jongg League card is written around. Sets sold as family games often quietly ship the Chinese count and no jokers.
Strong colour is a practical choice on a busy table. 4 players, 4 racks, a wall in the middle and a discard pile: the faster the eye separates one from another, the fewer disputes about what was discarded and when. Ivory blurs. Magenta does not.
A travelling set takes knocks. Acrylic coloured through its thickness hides them, because the material under a chipped edge is the same colour as the surface. Surface printed tiles show every mark.
Damp cloth. Keep the tiles contained rather than loose in a bag, because loose tiles grinding against each other in a car is what scratches an acrylic set. Out of direct sun.
A standing group that rotates hosts. Someone who wants a full size set that does not need two people to move it.
| Tiles | 160 |
|---|---|
| Tile size | 31.5 x 23 x 16 mm |
| Material | Acrylic |
| Colour | Magenta |
| Weight | 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) |
| Age | 14 and over |
Actual size
Drawn to scale. Tile 31.5 x 23 x 16 mm, next to a standard credit card.
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Read at a glance
Nobody wants to squint at their own hand. Faces that carry across the table, so the game moves and nobody has to ask.
Weight you'll notice
The difference between a tile you tolerate and a tile you reach for is in your fingers. Heavier tiles shuffle better and stack straighter.
Match your mat
Tiles set the palette for everything else on the table. Pick the ones you want to build around.
They are the practical default for a set that moves. Acrylic takes colour through its whole thickness, so a knocked corner still matches the face, and it does not absorb anything spilled on it. What it gives up against denser materials is a little of the sound and weight players associate with a serious set. For a set carried between houses, that trade is usually worth making.
The ones where the colour is in the material rather than sprayed onto it, which you can test by looking at an edge. After that, judge the depth: a tile that is too shallow leans in a rack and topples when the table is knocked. These run 31.5 by 23 by 16 mm, published, so the fit against your racks can be checked before it arrives.
Count and size. The traditional set is 144 tiles, 3 suits with winds, dragons, flowers and seasons. The American set keeps all of that and adds jokers, landing at 160 here, and the tiles themselves are cut larger. That is why American play needs racks and the traditional game often does not, and why the 2 sets are not swapped between tables.
They are the same thing described two ways. American mahjong is the version organised around the National Mah Jongg League card, which lists the hands that are legal for the current year, so people use the two names interchangeably. What matters when buying is that the set carries jokers and the full count the card assumes. This one does.
A mahjong set is handled more than almost anything else in the house: every tile passes through four pairs of hands, several times a game.
That is what we select for. Tiles that read clearly from the far side of the table, edges that stay clean, and a case that still closes after a few seasons of being carried around.
Sets differ in ways that only show at the table: the weight of a tile in the hand, how a crak reads from three seats away, whether the case survives the trip to a friend’s house.
When we have the figures, we publish them: tile count, tile size, weight and material. When we do not have one, we leave it out rather than guess.
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