Complete Video Course + Hands Guide
From Beginner to Champion
in 7 Days
The NMJL card, the Charleston, picking the right hand — finally explained in plain English, with frameworks that hold up for any card, any year.
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+ Printable Guide
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None of this is your fault
Six reasons the game feels harder than it should. Recognise any?
A year of progress, reset each spring
The new card owes you nothing.
Passing tiles blind
Six exchanges, zero guidance.
Your rack, your problem
The table moves on. You're still deciding.
A card written in code
Dots, bams and cracks — and no key.
Practice apps only keep score
They tell you that you lost, never why.
The pressure of four seats
Three people waiting while you work it out.
Every player hits these. The card assumes knowledge nobody hands you, and the rest gets picked up in fragments — if it gets picked up at all.
That stops here.
One week from now
Same table. Same card. Different player.
Nothing about the game changes. What changes is you.
Before
- Squinting at the card, none the wiser
- Picking a hand on instinct alone
- Bracing yourself for the Charleston
- Praying nobody clocks that you're lost
- Ducking tables with seasoned players
After
- Reading the card with real fluency
- Settling on a hand in half a minute
- Working the Charleston to your advantage
- Sitting at any table and keeping pace
- Passing on what you've worked out
Five modules stand between one column and the other.
The path
Five steps, start to finish
Taught in the order your head needs it, not the order a rulebook lists it. Seven days, end to end.
Tiles and terms
Suits, honours, jokers, and what a set really is.
Reading the card
Every line decoded until the notation reads like English.
The Charleston
What to keep, what to send, and what the passes tell you.
Choosing a hand
How strong players commit early — and when they pivot.
Playing to win
Defence, counting and closing out a game.
Nothing skipped, nothing assumed — each step earns the next.
Inside the course
What the course covers
Five modules, taking you from your first tile to holding your own anywhere.
1 The fundamentals Explained without shortcuts
Tiles, suits, jokers, pairs, pungs and kongs — and why the game is built the way it is.
2 Reading the NMJL card No tears required
How the card is structured, section by section, and how to decode the notation.
3 Strategy that holds up Choosing hands, seeing patterns
Stop staring at your rack and start making decisions.
4 Advanced play For anyone tired of losing
Switching hands mid-game, defensive thinking, the probability that matters, and when to expose.
5 Tournament mindset Real hands, start to finish
Whole hands broken down decision by decision — like sitting beside a strong player.
Watch it through once, then dip back in mid-game whenever you need it.
Included with the course
The cheat sheet you'll actually use
Every winning hand on one clean, readable reference — made for the table, not the filing cabinet.
- Every winning hand laid out visually, not in shorthand
- Grouped by category so you can find a line fast
- Sized for ordinary letter paper
- A phone version for use at the table
- Reissued each year — yours free, always
Print it, laminate it, keep it beside your rack.
Why it works
Built the way you'd actually learn it
Not a rulebook with videos attached. A route through the game.
Written from real sticking points
Every lesson exists because somebody actually got stuck there.
Plain language, no lecture
Explained the way a patient friend would, not a rulebook.
Nothing to memorise
Frameworks that hold for any card, so next year isn't a reset.
The why, not just the what
You'll understand why a move is right, which is what transfers.
Practise off the clock
Get comfortable alone, then arrive already competent.
Teaching and reference together
The lesson explains it; the sheet is there when you forget.
In their words
What students say afterwards
The part that matters isn't the course. It's the next game you sit down to.
The numbers so far
It works for most people
Not a promise — just what students report back.
Figures are drawn from our own student records and post-course survey responses.
Who's teaching
Taught by someone who was once lost too
Susan spent her first couple of years at the table guessing. This is the explanation she never got.
- Fifteen years at American Mahjong tables
- Has taught 2,500+ students, complete beginners upward
- Competes in tournaments, not just kitchen games
- Known for explaining things without the jargon
"I built this because I still remember how baffling it all was. Now I get to hand people the shortcut I never had." Susan Bennett
Learn it once. Play it for years.
Everything arrives the moment you buy. One payment, yours to keep. Nothing renews.
The Complete Bundle
Video course · Cheat sheet · 2026 Hands Guide
Paid once · Yours for life
Introductory price for the 2026 edition
That's $60 off today- Five-module video course, start to finish
- Printable cheat sheet for every winning hand
- The 2026 Hands Guide, included
- Phone-sized version for use at the table
- Lifetime access — nothing to renew
- Every future card update, free
- Thirty days to change your mind
Delivered the second you pay · Nothing to cancel later
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Thirty days, no hard feelings
Still not feeling more confident a month from now? Ask for your money back and keep the cheat sheet anyway. The risk sits with us, not you.
Before you buy
The things people always ask
And a few they should.
I've never touched a tile. Is this too advanced?
Module 1 starts from nothing — what the tiles are, what the suits mean, why a pung beats a pair. Nothing is assumed. By module 3 you're making real strategic calls, one step at a time.
I've played for years. Is there anything here for me?
Experienced players tell us the later modules earn it back — defensive discards, reading what exposures tell you, and spotting a dead hand early enough to act on it.
Why pay when there's free content on YouTube?
There's good free material out there. It's just scattered, inconsistent, and assumes you already know the piece you're missing. This is one sequence, in order — and the cheat sheet is the part nobody gives away.
What exactly is the cheat sheet?
A print-ready PDF for standard letter paper, with every winning hand laid out visually and grouped by category. There's a phone-sized version too, for use at the table.
The card changes every year. Does this go stale?
That's the whole design. You learn to read any card rather than memorise one — and every future edition of the hands guide lands in your account free.
How long do I keep access?
Indefinitely. One payment, no renewal, nothing to cancel. Anything added later shows up in your account at no extra cost.
Can I watch on my phone or tablet?
Phone, tablet, laptop or TV — it all works, and your progress follows you between them.
Do I still need the official NMJL card?
For league play, yes — get it from the National Mah Jongg League. Our guide sits alongside it as a reference, not a substitute. We're not affiliated with the NMJL.
What if it isn't what I hoped?
Email us inside thirty days and we'll refund you in full. No form, no reason required — and you keep the cheat sheet.
Something we didn't cover? Email us directly
A week from now
Nobody at the table will guess you were new
No more nodding along, no more hoping the pass was right. Just sitting down and knowing.
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