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A wind indicator in acrylic or wood, marking the four directions, which is what settles the round wind before anyone disputes it.
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Mahjong runs 2 winds at once. Each player holds a seat wind, and the game holds a round wind that advances once the deal has passed all 4 seats. Both affect scoring.
Without an indicator, the round wind lives in four people's memories, and it survives until the evening two of them disagree. There is no way to settle that afterwards, and the hand in question is usually the one that mattered.
Function is identical, so it is a question of what the set looks like. Acrylic suits a modern set and wipes clean. Wood suits a traditional set and has more weight, so it stays put when the wall is pushed against it.
The wooden version here is circular, which turns cleanly and is harder to knock out of alignment than a square marker.
Set the round wind at the start of play. Advance it when the deal has gone all the way around. The seat winds follow the players. It is a two second action per round and it removes an entire category of dispute.
Sets built for export are assembled around what looks complete in a photograph. The indicator is small, cheap and invisible in an image, so it is the first thing dropped, and buyers only discover it is missing once they are playing properly.
Wipe clean. Keep the wooden version out of damp, which makes it stiff to turn.
| Materials | Acrylic, or wooden circular |
|---|---|
| Marks | East, south, west, north |
| Weight | 0.15 kg (0.3 lb) |
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Wear your mahj
Bracelets, charms and keychains that other players spot from across a room. The quiet way of saying you play.
Win something to keep
Trinkets and small pieces for the winner of the hand. Every group needs a prize worth playing for.
Small pieces, big difference
Dice, wind indicators, counters. The details that make a table feel finished instead of improvised.
Set it to east when play begins, since the first round is always the east round. Leave it alone while the deal moves around the table, and advance it one position only once the deal has passed all 4 seats. The marks read east, south, west, north. The wooden version here is circular and turns to the next wind, which is harder to knock out of alignment than a square marker. It is a two second action per round.
They are the 4 honour tiles carrying the characters for the directions, east, south, west and north, usually written 東, 南, 西 and 北 on a Chinese or Japanese set. Sets made for the American game print the letters instead. The indicator uses the same four marks, in acrylic or in wood, so it can be matched to the set it sits beside rather than clashing with it.
There are 2 winds running at once. Each player holds a seat wind that follows them around the table, and the game holds a round wind that advances after the deal has been through all 4 seats. A set of 3 tiles matching either of those scores extra, while the same tiles collected by anyone else score nothing. That is why the round wind is worth marking rather than leaving it in four fallible memories.
East, south, west and north, and a standard set carries 4 copies of each, so 16 wind tiles in total. The order surprises new players: seating and the deal move east to south to west to north, which runs counter clockwise around the table rather than the way a clock does. This indicator is marked with all four and shows which one the current round belongs to, readable from every seat.
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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