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“Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora” by Nicole Wong – my favourite intro to Mahjong, by a long way

23 Feb 202623 Feb 2026
You can tell a book is really good if you have that feeling that you wish you'd written it yourself. But, I think Nicole Wong has produced a far, far…
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Mahjong – are we doing it wrong?

20 Oct 202520 Oct 2025
TL;DR There's a very interesting PhD thesis about Chinese players of Mahjong and Roulette in Manchester casinos. The key point for me is that in the main, for mahjong at…
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Mahjong – the best game you don’t play (and maybe should)

9 Jul 20209 Jul 2020
In recent months, I've fallen to a particular addiction - to the game of Mahjong. I like a range of games, from venerable heavy-weights like Go, through modern classics like…

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