Take It to the Table
Mahjong Cheat Sheet
Print this and keep it beside your rack for the first few games. Nobody will judge you — everyone did the same thing.
Bams
Craks
Dots
Winds
Dragons
Wildcards
Groups
- Pair — 2 identical tiles (no Jokers)
- Pung — 3 identical tiles
- Kong — 4 identical tiles
- Quint — 5 · Sextet — 6
- A hand is always 14 tiles total
A Turn
- 1. Draw a tile from the wall
- 2. Decide what no longer fits
- 3. Discard it and say it out loud
- 4. Play moves to the right
- Claim a discard only to make 3+ of a kind
Jokers
- Eight in the set
- Fill any group of 3 or more
- Never a pair, never a single
- Swap your real tile for an exposed Joker on your turn
Charleston
- Pass 3 right, 3 across, 3 left
- Pass your lonely tiles
- Keep pairs and triples
- Jokers can never be passed