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   FAQ 4a. Mah-Jongg Links
Know of other links which should be included?
Check FAQ 4b to see if they're listed there, and if not please email the Webmaster.

The below links are just a few, selected from among the many mah-jongg links in FAQ 4b and FAQ 5 -- click here or on a link at the left to read the Mah-Jongg FAQs.


Lessons & Teachers

State City/Area Type of M.J. Name Email and/or phone Website
CA Los Angeles American, Chinese Official, Chinese Classical, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Japanese, Western, & others Tom Sloper Contact me

See a class

CA San Fernando Valley American Judi Nachenberg jnachenberg@rocketmail.com Click!
CA Los Angeles (Univ. of Judaism, Bel Air) American Elaine Sandberg elasan@msn.com Click!
CA L.A. & S.F. Valley American Joyce McShane iamjoyoous@ca.rr.com (none)
CA L.A. (Studio City) American Doris Borenstein D4517@webtv.net (none)
CO Thornton (north Denver) Chinese Classical Kathy Limm ashnewal@comcast.net (none)
CT Old Saybrook Chinese Classical Allison Friday allisonfriday@msn.com (none)
FL Fort Myers American MariAnne Albano Info@PurpleDragonMahJongg.com Click!
FL Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter and Tequesta American Anna Farina-Rosen kmaindustriesinc@gate.net Click!
IL Chicago (Hyde Park) American Arlene Rubin ArleneCRubin@aol.com (none)
MI Battle Creek (not stated) Judie Moore onedot49015@sbcglobal.net (none)
NY Ithaca American Barbara Berger Kiawahbarb8@aol.com (none)
NY LI, metropolitan NY American Ling Maris mahjonglady@optonline.net or call 516 782 6621 Click!
NY Long Island American Alex Pollack Call (631) 585-2832 (none)
NY NY (Upper Eastside) American Linda Feinstein Visit my website: ManhattanMahjonggClub.com
NY NY American Linda Fisher lfisher@stenospeed.com Click!
TX Dallas American Marlene Stern mstern2307@comcast.net (none)
VA Lynchburg (Central VA, but will travel) Shanghai, Hong Kong, American Elise Dee Beraru 434-851-4532, elise0511@comcast.net (none)

For tips on how to find teachers in your area, read FAQ 15.


Commercial Vendors and Suppliers

Maj Exchange Sponsors are those commercial and other vendors which have paid to place banner ads on the Maj Exchange, in order to help offset the cost associated with maintaining the site.  We would like to thank all our sponsors for their generous support. For more information on becoming a Maj Exchange Sponsor, please email webmaster at sloperama dot com. Thanks!



Yellow Mountain Imports - Fine mahjong sets, accessories, and more for the mahjong enthusiast.
A Maj Exchange Sponsor!


Get your kicks from MAH JONGG?? Go to http://www.kmaindustries.com/ . KMA Industries has mah-jongg tablecloths, polo shirts, t-shirts, chocolates, magic coffee mugs, and many more mah-jongg accessories! Even big-number tiles for the visually impaired.
A Maj Exchange Sponsor!


WhereTheWindsBlow.com has fine quality mah-jongg gifts, gold mah-jongg charms, nightlights, trinket boxes, and many more mah-jongg accessories!
A Maj Exchange Sponsor!



MahjongMart is your one-stop destination for mahjong goods - especially Japanese mahjong goods.
http://www.mahjongmart.com/


Eclectic Elements - Handcrafted Beaded Artisan Jewelry, Specializing in Mahjong Mah Jong jewelry and bracelets as well as other fun and funky game piece fashion accessories). http://www.eclectic-elements.com/ .



Patty Cornett is "Phenolic Phenom," a seller who carries lots of mah-jongg chochkes and sets. See http://www.phenolicphenom.com and http://stores.ebay.com/phenolicphenom.


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American Mah Jongg Association. The alternative American Mah-Jongg organization has mah-jongg merchandise for sale.

8605 Snowreath Road
Baltimore, MD 21208
Toll-Free: 1-800-663-4581
Local: (410) 580-1357
Fax: (410) 580-1358
E-mail: amermja@aol.com
Website: http://www.amja.net


Esdee and by HIS hand. - Mah-Jongg jewelry and more!


IN EUROPE... Daja Mahjong carries an extensive line of mah-jongg books and products.


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Exclusively MahJongg is an extensive site of many types of new American and Chinese sets, accessories, jewelry, NMJL Standard Hands and Rules cards, and a great deal more.


Want your tiles engraved? See Ken Kaplan's engravings at www.arkayengravers.com/tiles/


Another resource if you need tiles carved is Morley Graphics (dlgallo@verizon.net). Regular reader Gina says, "Dee has done an amazing job helping me to complete some of my sets by carving tiles from blanks."


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Check out Travel Wizard's Mah-Jongg Site for sets, accessories, and some lovely graphics!


The Mah Jongg Maven - The Largest Selection of Mah-Jongg Games, Gifts & Supplies Available. Online ordering available. FREE Color Catalog Available!

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BTG Productions has produced an award-winning documentary about  Mah-Jongg, entitled "Mah Jongg: The Tiles That Bind". You can find out more about this film and order it from the BTG Productions site.



Belgian chocolates that look just like luscious Mah-Jongg tiles? Check out these Mad About Mahj Mints at http://medicimint.com  and for more information, email
Dale Rosenstock
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The Mah Jongg Shop carries a variety of new American and Chinese sets, some accessories, and pictures from the Japanese Mah Jongg Museum.


Need replacement tiles? Visit the Mahjong Tile Replacements & Museum site.




Wing Hop Fung usually has Hong Kong mah-jongg sets, and sometimes Vietnamese sets for sale. Probably no American sets. Click here for the online store or click here for a map if you're in Los Angeles.




MAH-JONGG ORGANIZATIONS in America


The National Mah Jongg League has been around since 1937, and may be reached at:
250 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10107
Phone: 212-246-3052
Fax: 212-246-4117
Email: (none)
Website: http://nationalmahjonggleague.org


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American Mah Jongg Association. The alternative American Mah-Jongg organization has a fun and different yearly card, a quarterly newsletter (which includes a column by Tom Sloper), a toll free number, and they accept credit cards too.

8605 Snowreath Road
Baltimore, MD 21208
Toll-Free: 1-800-663-4581
Fax: (410) 580-1358
E-mail: amermja@aol.com
Website: http://www.amja.net


The WRIGHT-PATTERSON RULES are available only from the Wright Patterson Mah Jongg Group. This Western game is the one played by officers' wives on American military bases all over the world; its has lots of fun special hands, and other specific differences from other rules (see FAQ 2 and FAQ 3). If you play by the Wright-Patterson rules, no other book will do!

Check out the Wright-Patterson OWC's great new website, at http://www.wrightpattersonowc.org/mahjongg.html.

Or write to:


The North American Mahjong Federation was created in 2008. Join and participate in tournaments, both live and online.
Website: http://mahjongfederation.com/


For information about organizations in other countries, see FAQ 4b.


Tournaments & Cruises


Sign up now for seven days aboard the beautiful 5-star Holland America ship the ms Westerdam with acclaimed private instructor and founder of the Manhattan Mah Jongg Club, Linda Feinstein. Cruise round-trip from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to Grand Turk & Caicos Islands, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Philipsburg, St. Marteen, and Half Moon Cay, Bahamas. February 8-15, 2009. http://www.manhattanmahjonggclub.com/mahjonggcruise.html


For a schedule of American-style Mah Jongg tournaments in the Los Angeles area, see Judi and Bill's Mah Jongg Fun website at http://www.geocities.com/jnachenberg.rm/index.html.


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American Mah Jongg Association. The alternative American Mah-Jongg organization organizes mah-jongg cruises and mah-jongg camps.

8605 Snowreath Road
Baltimore, MD 21208
Toll-Free: 1-800-663-4581
Fax: (410) 580-1358
E-mail: amermja@aol.com
Website: http://www.amja.net


For information on NMJL tournaments and cruises around the country, a copy of the official tournament rules, and additional information on the tournaments and cruises, visit Mah Jongg Madness

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The North American Mahjong Federation was created in 2008. Join and participate in tournaments, both live and online.
Website: http://mahjongfederation.com/


For information on NMJL tournaments and cruises in San Diego and Southern California, visit the Travel Wizard site at http://www.travelwizardtravel.com/tourney.htm



Not only tournaments, but a warm friendly environment where people have fun playing the game of Mah Jongg!! The Purple Dragon club is in Fort Myers, Florida.

For information on weekly American-style tournaments in West Palm Beach, FL, contact Dorothy Kornheiser by email at bdko@webtv.net or call her at 561-689-8299.

For info on American-style tournaments in the Midwest, visit www.midwestmahjongg.com. Dawn promises you'll have a lot of fun and meet nice people who love to play mah-jongg.

See a calendar of international tournaments at http://icalshare.com/article.php?story=20060218163914541.

The site of the Italian Mah jong Association (the first association in Italy to use the Official International Rules in tournaments) awaits with impatience your visit to: www.mah-jong.it!

For information about organizing your own tournament, read FAQ 21 here on this website.

Not a tournament but a club that gathers weekly in Fort Lauderdale: Harmony Mah Jongg Club's website is www.harmonymahjongg.com.


Computer Games -- Online and Offline


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For authentic Hong Kong style mah-jongg, try Hong Kong Mahjong, the most exquisitely attractive mah-jongg software program of them all.
Download a free demo or get info about buying Hong Kong Mah Jong at the Nine Dragons website at: http://www.ninedragons.com .

Four Winds Mah Jong provides rules for several different kinds of mah-jongg. Players may configure the program so that it resembles the way they play in real life. http://www.4windsmj.com/



The National Mah Jongg League online game is the only currently available American-rules software (Activision's Shanghai Second Dynasty and Shanghai Mah-Jongg Essentials have been discontinued and are out of print).
Contact the NMJL to obtain the software.
Phone: (212) 246-3052
Fax: (212) 246-4117
Email: (none)
Website: http://www.nmjl.org/software/
is the site for questions about the software; click the logo at right to go to the NMJL's site and order the software.


For more mah-jongg software listings, see FAQ #5.   The games listed above and in FAQ 5 all embody the true four-player game of mah-jongg (these are not tile-matching games). For simpler "solitaire" (Tile-Matching) games played with mah-jongg tiles, see FAQ #12.


Other Excellent Mah-Jongg Sites

Jim May's wonderful Mah Jongg Cyber Museum is a great resource for all Mah-Jongg players. It has history, information, pictures of sets, information about sets (it's a treasure trove of information for folks researching their mah-jongg set), and lots of other great stuff.

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CHarli's museum page is another great resource if you are looking for information about collectible mah-jongg sets. http://www.charli.org/Mah_Jong/Museum/welcome.htm.


And check Paul Jaeger's Mah Jong Library, too, if you're researching collectible mah-jongg sets. http://www.jaegerstudio.com/mjlibrary.htm.


Visit Martin Rep's Mahjong NEWS, an impressive and comprehensive internet newspaper about all things mah-jongg. Keep up to date on mah-jongg happenings, software, and news. http://www.mahjongnews.com/.


Linda Fisher's site is the only site on the web that describes American-style mah-jongg as it is played today. http://www.geocities.com/linfishr. AND see FAQ 19 for fine points of the American rules (and commonly misunderstood rules). AND every table should have a copy of the official rules booklet from the NMJL (see FAQ 3).


http://www.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/mj.htm is Gareth Saunders' site; includes valuable information on how to buy mah-jongg stuff in the United Kingdom, and lots more great information.


And just in case I haven't tooted my own horn enough...



For LOTS more mah-jongg website listings, see FAQ #4b.

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