In your bag · 0 items
Your bag is empty
The full 144 count as a deck of cards in classic blue and white, boxed, and light enough to live in a coat pocket.
delivery_truck_bolt Estimated delivery: -
Flat $9.95 shipping · 30-day returns from delivery
Most mahjong card decks ship 136 cards, which drops the flowers and seasons. This one carries the full 144, so the deck matches a traditional tile set exactly and any variant that uses flowers can be played.
It matters if the group already plays with tiles and wants a travel version of the same game rather than a simplified one.
The traditional colouring for Chinese playing cards, and useful beyond nostalgia: high contrast, no ambiguity between suits, and faces that read at a glance under poor light.
There is no wall, so a hand starts in seconds rather than after 3 minute build. Discards stack instead of spreading, so four people play on a surface the size of a tray.
The trade is the sound and the weight, which is a large part of why people play mahjong at all. Cards are almost always a household's second set.
Small and easy to overlook, and the reason a deck survives. A boxed deck stays complete; a loose one loses cards to bags and drawers, and a mahjong deck missing 3 cards is not playable.
Cards are an underrated way to teach the game. There is no wall to build and no shuffle to coordinate, so a beginner spends the first evening learning what a hand is rather than learning table procedure.
Once the shape of the game makes sense, moving to tiles adds the ritual back. Doing it in that order is considerably less discouraging than doing both at once.
Keep the deck dry. Replace creased cards rather than playing them, since a card identifiable from the back undermines the whole game.
| Cards | 144 |
|---|---|
| Colours | Blue and white |
| Weight | 0.23 kg (0.5 lb) |
| Age | 14 and over |
Orders are processed within 1 to 2 business days, with tracking on every parcel. Delivery across the United States takes 10 to 25 days and costs $9.95, one flat rate charged once per order whatever the number of items.
Changed your mind? You have 30 days from delivery to request a return, unused and in its original packaging. Approved refunds go back to your original payment method within 3 business days.
Mahj in your handbag
The whole tile set, in a deck. Plane tray, hotel room, poolside: anywhere a set won't go.
Wet hands welcome
Waterproof decks that survive an afternoon by the pool and a spilled drink.
Teach anyone, anywhere
The easiest way to show a friend the game before she commits to a set.
On the faces, colour does carry information: the dragons are traditionally red, green and white, and the suits are told apart by ink as much as by symbol. The blue and white scheme here is the classic Chinese playing card colouring, chosen for contrast rather than meaning, and it keeps all 144 cards readable under poor light. The backs carry no meaning at all and must stay uniform.
You can, and the count tells you what you are getting. This deck runs to 144, matching the full traditional set including flowers and seasons, so nothing is dropped from the game. Decks that stop at 136 have left the bonus tiles out. Check that number before buying, because it decides which hands are available rather than merely how thick the pack is.
On Chinese card decks the difference is usually the back colour alone, sold as a pair so two decks can be told apart at a table or so a household can replace one without confusion. Neither colour changes the rules or the faces. This set is blue and white, the traditional colouring, and what actually decides a purchase is the count: 144 here, so flowers and seasons are included.
Sets span a wide range, and what moves the figure is the material, the tile count and whether a case comes with it. A card deck sits at the bottom of that range because there is nothing to mould or to carry, which is why cards are usually a household's second set rather than its first. This one carries all 144 cards, so nothing is missing against a tile set of the same count.
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.
Loading…
