Mahjong Game Tutorial: Tips and Strategy Overview

Welcome to Episode 4 of our complete beginner’s mahjong lessons, Mahj 101. Let’s learn how to set up a Mahjong table for a game and how to deal the tiles in American Mahjong. Start by shuffling all of the tiles and placing them face down on the table. Then all players will build the wall: 19 stacks, 2 tiles high, in front of each rack. What is the wall? The wall in mahjong is a communal draw pile used throughout the game. Each player will draw the next tile in line from the pushed out wall on th