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A 160 tile American set in apple green acrylic, cut slightly over standard at 31.5 mm so the faces carry more space around each character.
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A standard American tile is around 30 mm tall. These are 31.5, and the extra millimetre and a half is not a rounding error in a factory spec. It is space on the face: more room around the character, a corner numeral that sits clear of the engraving, and a tile that reads from the opposite side of 4 seat table.
The depth is the other number worth reading. At 16 mm the tile has enough base to stand square in a rack. Thinner tiles lean, and a leaning wall is a wall that falls.
Traditional ivory has one weakness that nobody mentions when selling it: most tables are pale, most cloths are pale, and most mahjong is played under a warm bulb in the evening. Ivory on cream, at the far end of a table, at ten at night, is harder work than it should be.
A saturated green solves that without turning the set into a novelty. It reads as a choice of material rather than a gimmick.
The tile is built from stacked layers rather than moulded whole. That is where the depth in the colour comes from when you hold it up, and it is why a chipped corner shows green rather than white. Structural colour survives handling in a way surface colour does not.
Enough jokers for the current National Mah Jongg League card, with blanks held back as spares. If you are comparing sets, the number to compare is not the headline count but the joker count inside it.
A barely damp cloth. Store them in a case, not loose in a drawer, because acrylic picks up scratches from keys and coins faster than melamine does. Keep them out of direct sun.
A player who has decided ivory is not for them, and who would rather have a tile slightly larger than standard than slightly smaller. It suits a table that stays out.
| Tiles | 160 |
|---|---|
| Tile size | 31.5 x 23 x 16 mm |
| Material | Acrylic, four layer |
| Colour | Apple green |
| Weight | 2.3 kg (5.1 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.
There is a specific green tile, the green dragon, and it sits among the honours with the red and white dragons. Sets of dragons score in most rule sets, which is why players chase them. That is separate from a green set, where the colour is the body of every tile rather than a marking. Here the apple green is doing a legibility job, not a scoring one.
Within the faces, colour is functional: it separates the suits at a glance and names the 3 dragons. Across a whole set, colour is a choice about contrast. Ivory tiles on a cream cloth under a warm evening light are genuinely harder to read at the far end of a table, and a coloured body fixes that. Neither convention nor scoring is involved in the body colour.
The suited tiles, the honour tiles and the bonus tiles. Suited tiles run one to nine in bamboo, circles and characters. Honours are the winds and dragons, which have no numbers and cannot form runs. Bonus tiles, the flowers and seasons, are set aside when drawn and replaced. Everything else in a box, jokers and blanks included, is an addition made by a particular version of the game.
Warehouse sets are usually judged on the wrong thing, which is the case. What decides whether a set lasts is the tile: whether the colour goes through the material or sits on the surface, and whether the size suits the racks you own. This one is 31.5 by 23 by 16 mm, published, and coloured through 4 bonded layers. Compare on those numbers rather than on the box.
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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