Why We Mahj

We are a company founded by mahjong enthusiasts who will drop anything and everything for the chance to shuffle tiles and play our favorite game. Why do we love mahjong so much?

We connect. Playing with bots online is a great way to bone up on your skills, but there’s no better way to to connect with old friends and make new ones than through a game of mahjong. When we play mahjong in person, we strengthen our existing friendships and extend our circles when new players join.

We organize. Life can be chaotic no matter what stage you’re in. When a mahjong game begins, there is pure chaos. Bams here. Craks there. No jokers. Not enough winds. No matching dragons. As the game progresses, we organize the tiles in a way that makes sense. We may not always be able to control the things that life throws our way, but in mahjong, we can bring disparate tiles together and make order out of the chaos.

We concentrate. Mind numbing phone scrolling isn’t just a habit that plagues younger generations. We’re all prone to mindless activities, whether it’s watching endless Instagram reels about cats or keeping tabs on the 24-hour news cycle. We so rarely have the ability to completely disconnect from the world around us. But when we’re at the mahjong table, it’s as if time has stopped.

We strategize. We see the toll that age and dementia have on our parents and grandparents, and we hope that science will catch up before we’re there ourselves. In the meantime, playing mahjong is a way to keep our brains sharp. Once we have mastered the names of the tiles, the endless rules, and the complicated hands, we must strategize. How do I win with these tiles? How do I stop my opponents from winning? Should I force a wall game? These strategies improve our focus and exercise our brains.

We relax. It's difficult to find ways to truly relax in today's fast-paced world. We have families and jobs and responsibilities and crazy schedules, and we crave time away from the constant phone calls and texts and interruptions. So we make it a priority to carve out time to play this amazing game. We sit. We sip. We chat. We laugh. We plan. We learn. We grow. We Mahj.