

Then, everyone pushes their rows together to form a square. Each player makes a wall in front of them with their 36 tiles by stacking 1 row of 18 tiles on another row of 18 tiles. To start the game, mix all 144 tiles together face-down, then divide them evenly among the players. There are also 4 wind tiles, 3 dragon tiles, 4 flower tiles, and 4 season tiles. The tiles within the suits are numbered 1 through 9. There are 3 suits: bamboos (or sticks), characters, and dots. A meld is a set of 3 matching tiles (pong meld), 4 matching tiles (kong meld), or 3 consecutive numbers in the same suit (chow meld). The goal of the game is to get the highest score by creating a mahjong, which is 4 melds and a pair. Mahjong is a fun 4-player game where players try to form melds with tiles to score points.


Make sure you still pass 3, making up the extra from your hand. On the third pass, you can use a "blind" pass, meaning you can move 1-3 tiles that are passed to you on to the next person without looking at them.If everyone agrees, you can do the whole process a second time, but if 1 person says "no," you don't. Then you do the same with the person across from you (second pass) and then for the person to your left (third pass). All you do is take 3 tiles from your hand that you want to discard and pass them to the right, called the first pass. You must do the Charleston the first time. This rule is a variant, and it's typically only used in the American version. Pass tiles using the "Charleston" rule in American mahjong.
