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Oversized tiles at 36 mm in a soft jade green, engraved then painted, for players who want the table to be read from anywhere in the room.
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A standard American tile runs around 30 mm tall. These are 36. 6 millimetres sounds like nothing written down and is obvious in the hand: the face carries more space around each character, the corner number sits clear of the engraving, and the wall reads from the opposite side of 4 seat table without anyone leaning in.
The people who ask for oversized tiles are rarely beginners. They are players who have been at it for years, whose eyes have changed, and who would rather buy a bigger tile than hold the game up.
The production order matters. Printing colour onto a finished tile puts the marking on the surface, where handling wears it. Cutting the character first and laying the colour into the cut puts the marking below the surface, where handling cannot reach it. This set is made the second way, and it is the reason a set like this outlives its owner rather than its decade.
Ivory is traditional. It is also the colour of most table cloths, most dining tables under a warm bulb, and most of the light a game is played in. A soft jade holds its edge against all of that.
The colour runs through the acrylic rather than sitting on it, so an edge that takes a knock stays green.
This is a tile set. No racks, no case, no chips. That is the right purchase in two situations: you are replacing tiles in a set whose racks and case are still good, or you already own racks you like and want tiles that match the table rather than the factory.
If you are buying a first set, look for one that arrives with racks and a case instead. Assembling a table piece by piece costs more and rarely matches.
Barely damp cloth, no solvent. Acrylic marks more easily than melamine, so store the tiles in a case rather than loose. Out of direct sun.
| Tile size | 36 x 26 x 13 mm |
|---|---|
| Material | Acrylic |
| Colour | Light green jade |
| Finish | Engraved, then hand painted |
| Weight | 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) |
| Age | 14 and over |
Actual size
Drawn to scale. Tile 36 x 26 x 13 mm, next to a standard credit card.
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.
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.
Quality shows in how the marking is made rather than in what the set is called. On these tiles the character is cut into the acrylic and the colour laid into the cut, so handling cannot wear it away, and the jade tone runs through the full 13 mm thickness instead of sitting on the face. Size counts too: at 36 x 26 mm the wall reads from the opposite side of 4 seat table. Check those two things before anything else.
The top of the market is collectors' territory: pre war bone and bamboo, early Bakelite, hand carved sets whose value sits in their age rather than in their play. Those are fragile and rarely brought to a weekly table. This is a different category, modern acrylic at 36 x 26 x 13 mm, engraved and then hand painted, made to be shuffled several 1000 times a year instead of displayed behind glass.
Three things drive the cost. The American count carries more tiles than the Chinese game, so there is more material in the box, 2.5 kg of it here. Engraving each face and then hand painting the cut is far slower than printing on a finished tile. And an oversized tile at 36 mm uses more acrylic per piece than a standard 30 mm one. None of that is decoration, it is what keeps a set legible for decades of play.
Buy wherever the listing states the things that decide whether the tiles will suit you: dimensions in millimetres, whether the marking is engraved or printed, and what is in the box. This page gives 36 x 26 x 13 mm, acrylic through the body, engraved then hand painted, tiles only with no racks or case. A listing that will not commit to those numbers is a listing that cannot tell you what will arrive.
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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