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Learn mahjong, hand by hand.

Short lessons on a real table, practice hands against three bots with a coach beside you, and a look back at each finished hand to see where it turned.

Free to learn, free to play. No card, no catch.

Playing Hong Kong classical rules

How it works

  1. Learn

    Fifteen short lessons, one idea at a time, played out on the table in front of you. Nothing to memorise before you start.

    See the lessons
  2. Practise

    Play full hands against three bots who each play their own way. The coach sits beside you and says when a moment matters.

    Deal a hand
  3. Play with friends

    Open a room, share its six-letter code, and play hand after hand together. Bots fill any empty seat.

    Open rooms

Today’s puzzle

#56 · 7 October 2026

Tap the kong — all four copies of one tile.

Play today’s puzzle

One board a day, the same for everyone.

The beginner course

15 lessons that take you from what the tiles are to playing a hand on your own, in the order a beginner actually needs them.

  1. What is mahjong?
  2. Meet the tiles
  3. What winning means
  4. Chow, pung and kong
  5. The table
  6. Draw, decide, discard
  7. Claiming a discard
  8. Reading your own hand
  9. Your first full hand
  10. What a win is worth
  11. Enough to win
  12. Etiquette and flow
  13. Claiming a kong
  14. Practice hands
  15. Play a hand on your own
See the whole course