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A small zipped nylon bag for cards and the loose pieces, so dice and score sheets stop living at the bottom of a tile bag.
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Every mahjong set generates small pieces: dice, a wind indicator, scoring chips, a league card, a folded score sheet. Loose in a tile bag, they sink under the tiles and are found by tipping everything out.
A small zipped pouch that lives permanently inside the main bag solves it. The pieces stay together, they are found in seconds, and nothing gets left behind when the set is packed up in a hurry at the end of an evening.
For anyone playing the American game, the annual National Mah Jongg League card travels with the set and gets creased, spilled on and eventually lost. A dedicated pouch keeps it flat and dry, and a card in poor condition is genuinely annoying to read across a table.
Chosen over printed cotton for one reason: it does not absorb. A cotton pouch that gets damp stays damp against whatever is inside it, and a card stored damp is a card that curls.
100 grams. Small enough that there is no reason not to keep it in the bag permanently, which is the point.
Wipe clean or hand wash, and dry fully before putting anything back in.
| Material | Nylon |
|---|---|
| Closure | Zipper |
| Colours | Gold, blue and white, pink and green |
| Weight | 0.1 kg (0.2 lb) |
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Nobody knows what's inside
Cowhide, suede, straw. Carry it to your friend’s place, then carry it to lunch.
Big enough to matter
Sizes that take a compact tile set, which handbags almost never do. Capacity is on the page, so it's a choice and not a gamble.
Take mahj with you
The reason your set leaves the house instead of living in a closet.
There are 2 answers because there are 2 bags. The tile bag has to take the set and the racks, and it is sized in tens of centimetres. The second bag is small, and this is one: cards, dice, wind markers and a pen, the pieces that sink to the bottom of a tile bag and are found weeks later. Getting the small one right is what stops the large one from becoming a drawer.
The annual card is the structural reason. It is reissued every year with new hands, and playing the current game means owning the current card, so there is a running cost built into the format. Add racks for four, pushers, and tiles that are larger than the Chinese equivalent, and the entry price is spread across several separate purchases rather than one box.
The small thing they would never buy for themselves. Everybody who plays has a set; almost nobody has sorted out where the dice and the card live between games. A zipped nylon pouch that stays inside the tile bag permanently costs very little and removes an irritation that has been going on for years. Three colourways, so it can be picked to match what they already carry.
A set is not one object, it is well over a hundred identical ones, and identical is the expensive part. Colour has to match across every tile, engraving has to sit at the same depth, and a single tile that fails takes the set with it. Then the whole thing has to be shipped by weight. The loose pieces around it, cards and dice and markers, are the cheap end of the same game.
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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