Games & Activities

Learn and play the fascinating game of Mahjong with this comprehensive kit.

Mahjong or "Mah Jongg" is not called "The Game of a Thousand Intelligences" for nothing. It's relaxing, social, and allows people to focus on something completely unrelated to everyday concerns. And it's thrilling—there's nothing more exciting than when, with your heart racing, your adrenaline pumping, and your palms sweating, you call "Mahjong!"

Play American Mah Jongg! Kit contains a complete deck of 152 full-color, durable Mahjong playing cards, along with the best-selling book A Beginner's Guide to American Mah Jongg by Elaine Sandberg.

The included full-color paperback book, A Beginner's Guide to American Mah Jongg features color text to show various hands and tiles clearly. It is the only book available which is specifically geared toward American Mahjong and follows the official National Mah Jongg League rules. It offers first-time players an easy-to-follow guide to this complex game. Play American Mah Jongg! Kit is ideal for beginner and experienced players alike and can be enjoyed both at home and for travel.

This Mahjong kit contains:

• 96 page, full-color book
• Simple instructions and clear diagrams
• 152 Mahjong playing cards sized 1.75 x 3.25"

Learn and play the fascinating game of Mahjong with this comprehensive kit.

Play American Mah Jongg! Kit contains a complete deck of 152 full-color, durable Mahjong playing cards, along with the best-selling book A Beginner's Guide to American Mah Jongg by Elaine Sandberg.

The included full-color paperback book includes simple, easy-to-follow instructions and clear diagrams to walk the reader through each step of the game, including how to select a hand, how to play and how to develop winning strategies. This kit is ideal for beginners and experienced players alike, and can be enjoyed both at home and for travel.

This Mahjong kit contains:

• 96 page, full-color book
• Simple instructions and clear diagrams
• 152 Mahjong cards (1.75 x 3.25 inches)

This beautiful tangram kit includes the original fifteen-piece set along with a beautifully illustrated instruction guide.

The tangram has a very long history. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a puzzle game whose idea derived from the Banquet Table Diagrams (Yanji Tu) of the Song Dynasty and Butterfly Table Diagrams (Dieji Tu) of the Ming Dynasty, capturing the wisdom of the ancients. From literati to businessmen, even the royal family, they all fell in love with this brain game, also known as the "Fifteen-Piece Tangram Puzzle."

As the name suggests, the fifteen-piece tangram puzzle consists of fifteen pieces. They are different from the regular seven-piece tangram puzzle concerning shapes and number of pieces. The regular seven-piece tangram puzzle is made up of five triangles, one square, and one parallelogram. The fifteen-piece tangram puzzle is also dissected from a square but composed of more shapes: four triangles, two trapezoids, one parallelogram, two L-shapes, two semi-circles, and four arch-shapes. A more extensive range of shapes and pieces allows more flexibility and creates more vivid configurations such as animals, birds, flowers, fruits, figures, objects, or even landscapes. Every single puzzle in this tangram book is full of imagination, supplemented with poems and phrases, which can both be a feast to the eye and delightful experience for your mind.

Did you have a difficult time to start in the beginning? Don't worry! The first chapter in this book illustrates various geometries that can be formed by the fifteen pieces. After learning the basics, you can then go into the advanced chapters to get the key to all the puzzles.