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The game as a deck of 136 waterproof PVC cards, taking the space of a pack of cards rather than 2 kilo box.
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A mahjong card deck plays the same game with printed cards instead of moulded tiles. The suits, honours and flowers are all present. What disappears is the weight, the wall and the shuffle, and with them about 2 kilos and most of the table space.
The 136 card count corresponds to the traditional set without flowers and seasons, which is how many variants are actually played.
Paper mahjong cards exist and they fail the same way every time: the corners soften, the backs mark, and a marked back in mahjong is a serious problem because the game depends on hidden information.
PVC does not absorb. It survives a wet table, it wipes clean, and the backs stay uniform, which is the specification that actually matters on a card set.
Boats, planes, hospital rooms, holiday flats and small kitchens. Anywhere a wall of 144 tiles will not fit, or where the noise of shuffling would carry through a wall.
It also reaches players whose hands have stopped enjoying a heavy set, and who would rather change format than stop playing.
The sound and the heft, which for many players is most of the pleasure. A deck is a second set for a household, rarely a first.
Card decks come at 136 and at 144. The difference is the flowers and seasons: 144 includes them, 136 does not. Many variants play without flowers, which is why 136 exists.
If the deck is meant to mirror a tile set you already own, match the count. If it is a first mahjong purchase, the fuller deck leaves more variants open.
Wipe with a damp cloth. Replace any card that gets creased rather than playing it, since a distinguishable back changes the game.
| Cards | 136 |
|---|---|
| Material | PVC |
| Waterproof | Yes |
| Weight | 0.2 kg (0.4 lb) |
| Age | 3 and over |
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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.
Card decks are sold by specialist mahjong retailers and by general game shops, and this one ships direct from our own catalogue. The more useful question is not where but which: check the card count and the material before ordering. This deck is 136 PVC cards, which matches a traditional set played without flowers and seasons, and PVC is what keeps the backs uniform after a season of handling.
Yes, and this deck is 136 cards, which is the tile game without the flowers and seasons. Hands and scoring stay recognisable to anyone who plays with tiles. What goes is the physical apparatus: no wall to build, no shuffling between hands, no noise, and nothing that weighs 2 kilos. It fits where a tile set never could, which is the reason the format exists.
Yes, and this is one of them. The deck is made from PVC rather than printed on paper stock, so a spilled drink or a damp table does not soften the corners or mark the backs. Paper cards fail at exactly that point, and a marked back is a serious problem in a game built on hidden information. Wipe these cards with a damp cloth and they go straight back in the pack.
You need a purpose printed mahjong deck rather than a standard pack of playing cards. The faces carry the 3 suits, the winds and the dragons, and decks come at either 136 or 144 cards. The difference is the flowers and seasons: 144 includes them, 136 does not. This set is 136, which suits the many variants played without flowers and mirrors 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.
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