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Beginner Intensive Workshop
165.00 $
1 Class a total of 4 hours
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(this class includes a NMJL card and a Highlighter kit)

Class 1 Intensive: Learn to play in one day
  • A brief History of Mah Jongg
  • Learning your set
  • Learning your tiles
  • Dragon Partnerships
  • Terminology
  • Understanding the card
  • Setting up the game
  • Rolling the dice and determining who is east
  • Dealing
  • The Charleston
  • Charleston passes
  • Forming families
  • Forming hands
  • Calling
  • Exposing
  • Joker Exchanges
Beginner
140.00 $
4 Classes, 2-hours per class, 8 hours total (classes include a NMJL card and a Highlighter kit)
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Class 1
  • A brief History of Mah Jongg
  • Learning your set
  • Learning your tiles
  • Terminology
  • Dragon Partnerships
  • Understanding the card
  • Introduction to the Charleston
  • Setting up the game
Class 2
  • Review of Class 1
  • How game features work
  • Roll Dice
  • The Charleston
  • Begin game play
  • Forming Hands
  • Calling Tiles
  • Joker Exchanges
Class 3
  • Review of class 2
  • Play game
  • More on forming families and hands
Class 4
  • Review of class 3
  • Play game
  • More on forming families and hands
  • Intro to some strategies
Advanced Strategies
75.00 $
2 hours private class
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All aspects of defensive and offensive play will be discussed during play including but not limited to:

Class 1
  • Rules for passing in the Charleston
  • More on fresh tiles
  • More on safe tiles
  • Is it too early to call?
  • Holding pairs for a period of time
  • More on joker exchange
  • More on throwing flowers
  • More on throwing jokers
  • When to break up your hand
  • Being prepared to switch hands
  • Pay attention to what others are playing/doing
  • Flowers and holding more than 1 for a period of time and why.
  • Going Jokerless
  • Splitting up a pair in the Charleston
  • Follow same tile thrown if you have one
  • Go for the Quint hands and keeping backups
  • Go for the Singles and pairs hands and keep backups
  • Watch other people’s mannerisms
Advanced Beginner-Intermediate
80.00 $
2 classes, 2-hours per class, 4 hours total.
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Class 1 & 2
  • Rules for passing in the Charleston
  • More on fresh tiles
  • More on safe tiles
  • Is it too early to call?
  • More on joker exchange
  • More on throwing flowers
  • More on throwing jokers
  • When to break up your hand
  • Being prepared to switch hands
  • Pay attention to what others are playing/doing