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A 160 tile American set light enough to travel, in 5 colours, with the full breakdown down to the 6 blank spares.
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A set that travels is a set that gets dropped. It goes in a car boot under a bag of shopping, it is carried up a staircase by somebody holding two other things, and it spends a night on a hotel floor. Almost all mahjong damage happens away from the table.
Two things protect a set through that. The material, because acrylic takes a knock without marking the way a printed tile does. And the spares, because the tile lost in a hire car is not coming back.
6 blanks look like padding on a spec sheet. On a travelling set they are the difference between a game and an ornament. A set missing one tile cannot be played properly, and replacing a single tile from a Chinese factory is not a thing anyone manages.
Count the tiles back into the box at the end of every session. It takes a minute and it is the only habit that reliably keeps a set alive.
108 suit tiles, one through 9 in bams, cracks and dots, 4 of each. 16 winds, 12 dragons, 8 flowers. 10 jokers, which is what the National Mah Jongg League card is written around. 6 blanks.
It is worth checking this list against any set you compare it with, because the headline number hides how it is composed.
In a standing group where several people own sets, colour is the only reliable way to tell them apart once tiles have mixed. It is a practical feature disguised as a decorative one.
Damp cloth. Store the tiles contained, not loose in a tote with keys. Out of a hot car in summer.
| Tiles | 160 |
|---|---|
| Breakdown | 108 suits, 16 winds, 12 dragons, 8 flowers, 10 jokers, 6 blanks |
| Material | Acrylic |
| Colours | Pink, yellow, purple, dark green, orange |
| Weight | 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) |
| Age | 18 and over |
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Play tonight
Tiles, and everything the case holds, in one box. Unwrap it, deal a hand, and your table is running.
The sound alone
Shuffling a real set is half the pleasure. Weight in your hand, that clack across the table: you can hear it before you see it.
Yours for twenty years
A set outlasts the group it started with. Choose one you'll still want on the table when someone else is dealing.
Research on tile games and cognition is encouraging rather than conclusive, and no set should be sold as a treatment for anything. What can be said plainly is that the game asks for sustained attention, pattern recognition and a table of company, and those are the conditions researchers tend to look at. Anyone considering it for a health reason should raise it with a clinician.
For a set that travels, the ones that survive being knocked about, which means colour through the material and edges that are polished rather than merely cut. Spares matter as much as quality here: 6 blanks in the box means a tile lost in a hotel room does not end the set. That is a specification worth checking on any set you intend to carry.
Because of what is in the box rather than what is on the label. This breakdown is 108 suit tiles, 16 winds, 12 dragons, 8 flowers, 10 jokers and 6 blanks, and every one of those has to match every other. The jokers and blanks are pure addition over the traditional game. More pieces, larger pieces, more weight to ship, in that order.
Count the box. A traditional set stops at 144: suits, winds, dragons, flowers and seasons. An American set runs to 160 or more, because jokers and blank spares are added, and the tiles are cut larger to suit racks. Those extra tiles are not optional decoration; the hands on the annual card are written assuming they are there.
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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