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Hand rubbed household tiles at 24 mm in green, blue or pink, arriving with a bag, polished so a hand can be sorted by feel.
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Hand rubbing is the final polish, done by hand rather than left as moulded. It produces a face with a slight softness that players use constantly without thinking about it: feeling for a tile among thirteen, checking an edge without turning it, sorting by touch while watching the discard.
It is common on tiles made for Chinese households and rare on export sets, and it is rarer still at 24 mm, where most production is aimed squarely at price.
Green, blue and pink rather than ivory. The practical benefit is contrast: a coloured tile separates from a pale cloth and from a wooden table, which is where traditional ivory struggles most under evening light.
The secondary benefit is identification, which matters in any group where more than one person owns a set.
Compact without being fiddly. The faces remain readable across a small table, and the set carries easily. It suits a household that plays regularly but does not have a dedicated table.
Tiles made for Chinese households assume a dedicated table and sometimes an automatic one. Before ordering, check what these need to fit: racks cut for American tiles will not take a household tile of a different height, and an automatic table will only accept the size it was built for.
On an ordinary dining table with no racks, none of that applies and the set simply works.
Barely damp cloth and nothing else. Hand rubbed surfaces are the first thing a solvent ruins, and the finish cannot be restored at home. Keep the set in its bag rather than loose.
| Tile size | 24 mm |
|---|---|
| Finish | Hand rubbed |
| Colours | Green, blue, pink, white |
| Certification | CE |
| Weight | 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) |
| Age | 18 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.
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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.
The green tile usually means Fa, the green dragon, one of 3 dragons alongside the red and the white. A set carries 12 dragon tiles, 4 of each, and they count as honours rather than as part of a numbered suit. That is separate from the colour of the tile body: these hand rubbed tiles are produced in green, blue, pink and white, and the body colour has no bearing on play or scoring.
Contrast is what to solve for. Green tiles at 24 mm read clearly against a dark mat in navy, charcoal or black, and lose their edge on a green cloth of a similar tone. A mid grey or a deep neutral keeps the faces legible under evening light without competing with the colour. Beyond looks, a mat earns its place mechanically: it stops small tiles sliding on a bare table and quiets the shuffle.
On the faces, colour is part of the marking rather than a rule of its own. The dragons are red, green and white, the characters suit is printed in red and blue, and the flowers and seasons carry mixed colour. None of it changes what a tile does. The body colour is a separate matter and purely a question of finish, which is why this set is offered in green, blue, pink and white.
Suits, honours and bonus tiles. The suits are dots, bamboo and characters, numbered one to 9 with 4 copies of each, 108 tiles in all. The honours are the 4 winds and the 3 dragons, 16 and 12 tiles. The bonus tiles are the 8 flowers and seasons. That is the 144 of a Chinese set, and there are no jokers in it, which is the line between this game and the American one.
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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