I remember my mother having weekly Mah Jongg games that rotated among the players’ homes. When it was her turn to host, she put out lots of yummy snacks, and I watched the women laughing and ...

“I like the mental challenge and the companionship when we get together to play,” said Sharon Schmidt of Westmont, who is part of the group that meets on Wednesday afternoons to play mah-jongg ...

Images of smoky late night mah-jongg dens packed with gamblers slamming down tiles with noisy abandon are best left to the movies. At the Matsumi-Gakuen free school in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture ...

Stay-at-home lifestyles have further eroded the rough image of mah-jongg as a game played all night by crude characters in smoke-filled gambling dens. Families and friends of all ages are now ...

On a warm summer evening, the backyard of a Melrose photo studio was transformed into a moody mah-jongg parlor with a Wong Kar Wai aesthetic. Amid the neon-red lighting and painted lanterns ...

Mah-jongg, a game in which players match or sequence sets of tiles, is often referred to as China’s “national pastime.” However, its rise as a globally beloved game has roots somewhere else ...

Mah Jongg is a complex and engaging board game that originated in 19th-century China and has since gained popularity ...

PIEDMONT — The tiles clack as players shuffle the 152 colorfully decorated tiles to begin the intricate game of Mah Jongg. Players nosh on snacks like nuts or candies for “brain food,” as ...

Five bam. Flower. Two crak. Soap. West. Nine dot. Call – Mah Jongg! Sounds like secret code, but it’s what you might hear when you walk into a room where American Mah Jongg is being played.