Customer Reviews

The Mah Jong Player's Companion

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This book has COLOR pictures of all the hands I knew and then some! The group I taught to play fell in love with this book, although it has slowed down play as everyone looks up new hands to try. I love all three of Thompson & Maloney's mah jong books. This is truely for the die hard fan of the game who is always looking for a new hand as well as for the slightly advanced beginner. Seeing the hands helps. The book also breaks the hands into a short list used to start with and then a longer list of even more beautiful mah jong hands.

I thought this book would help me understand the American version of Mah better and it did not. It lists many hands and the hands are titled ... but his means nothing to someone who only plays the American version who purchases a new card each year. That said, I am sure it is my ignorance in not knowing what was meant by the title...I am sure this book would be helpful to those playing the game perhaps known as Chinese Mah...and has information on scoring that I didn't know existed. Again, this is probably due to my ignorance of the game but I would never have purchased it had I known it was different than the American version. In a nutshell, had I read the reviews I would have known this and not purchased the book!

As neophytes at the game of Western Mah Jong, the four of us at the table often play with a copy of The Mah Jong Player's Companion in our laps. The colored pictures are extremely helpful when trying to formulate a hand or when trying to change one.

I am a beginner to Mahjong and this book may be a little advanced for me, but it is handy to have as a reference. We play a very simple version on Mahjong until we get better, but I was able to play one of the hands from this book the first time out. Everything is clearly illustrated.

THE MAH JONG PLAYER'S COMPANION is an excellent book for beginners and beyond.

All hands are shown in colour making it easy to understand as well as it is indexed so you can look up hands that can be made from tiles you have been dealt.

It includes scoring and strategies on how to place your tiles so others don't predict your hand. It includes organising a tournament and answers questions to the rules of the game.

The index is divided conveniently into RUNS, CHOWS, PAIRS, WINDS, DRAGONS, BAMBOO CHARACTER AND CIRCLE SUITS, and many more. I would highly recommend this book for new comers to Mah Jong.

I am a beginning American Mah Jong player. I oredered this book because its description gave the impression that it would be helpful to a beginning player for developing strategies. It is not at all helpful. It show many types of hands, but provides no idea of what to do with them. Looking at these hands, leads me to believe that this book is only for Chinese Mah Jong. If you are looking for a helpful book to learn strategies in playing beginning American Maj Jong, this book in not for you!

I can only say that the service that I have had here has been Great..
The Book I got was Mah Jong Players, infact I got two..
They arrived before due date and were just what I wanted..
I'm from New Zealand so for me this is the place I will come back to..
Thankyou so much for the outstanding Services and I will be back..

The book was received in the condition stated. It just took a very long time to receive it.
Not happy with that.

play weekly with a group of friends and we use this book plus 2 others for info.

Have tried to order this book, but Amazon no longer carries it...PLEASE BRING IT BACK!