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A complete American set in pink, 166 tiles arriving with dice and scoring chips, so the first game happens the evening it lands.
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A great many mahjong sets arrive as tiles alone, and the buyer discovers over the following week that a game also needs dice, something to keep score with and a way to mark the wind. Each of those is a small purchase and a small delay, and together they are the reason a set can sit unused for a month.
This one arrives with dice and chips in the box. The first evening happens on the evening it lands, which is the difference between a set that gets played and a set that gets planned.
166 tiles: 3 suits, honours, flowers, and the jokers the National Mah Jongg League card is written around. A set at 144 with no jokers is the Chinese game, and it will not play the card no matter how it is labelled.
Colour choices in listings are usually justified with the word elegant. The practical argument is different: most mahjong is played on a wooden dining table under a warm bulb, and ivory tiles on oak at that hour are harder to read than anyone admits. Pink separates cleanly from wood.
A large share of first mahjong sets are given rather than bought. A complete set is the one that survives that: the recipient can play immediately instead of researching what else they need, which is where most gifted hobbies quietly die.
A barely damp cloth. Keep the set out of a hot car through a summer, which is what discolours resin tiles faster than any amount of handling.
| Tiles | 166 |
|---|---|
| Material | Plastic |
| Colour | Pink |
| Includes | Dice and scoring chips |
| Age | 14 and over |
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Play tonight
Tiles, and everything the case holds, in one box. Unwrap it, deal a hand, and your table is running.
The sound alone
Shuffling a real set is half the pleasure. Weight in your hand, that clack across the table: you can hear it before you see it.
Yours for twenty years
A set outlasts the group it started with. Choose one you'll still want on the table when someone else is dealing.
For most first buyers the deciding factor is completeness. A box of tiles alone still needs dice, something to keep score with and a way to mark the wind, and each missing piece pushes the first game back another week. This one arrives with 166 pink tiles, dice and scoring chips together in the box. The only thing still to obtain is the annual card from the National Mah Jongg League.
A set is a great many small manufactured objects, not one. There are 166 tiles here before you reach the dice and the scoring chips, each moulded, marked and matched to the rest of the run. Colour that runs through the piece costs more than colour printed on top, which is why the pink holds even where a corner takes a knock. Cheaper sets normally save on the marking, the part you read every hand.
Shelf stock in general stores varies by season and by location, and what turns up is often a Chinese 144 tile set rather than an American one. If you are buying for an American game, check the tile count and the jokers before you look at anything else. This set is 166 tiles with the full joker count, cut for the American card rather than adapted from the Chinese game, and it ships with dice and chips.
It is not a variant of the game, only a colour. The rules, the 166 tile count and the card are those of any American set; the tiles are simply made in pink instead of ivory. The practical argument for it is legibility. Most mahjong is played on a wooden dining table under a warm bulb, and ivory tiles on oak at that hour are harder to read than players tend to admit. Pink separates cleanly from wood.
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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