ThinkFun Meet Mahjong - The Engaging Family Board Game for 4 | Teaches Basics of Mahjong | Perfect for Adults and Kids | Enhances Memory and Cognitive Skills

daughter has been wanting this my mom played this many years ago

I almost returned this, but since we're just learning, and I only paid $20, we decided to keep it. We can learn while we hunt for just the right set for keeps. This is reasonably priced and might make a good gift for kids. It's about the same price and quality as a jigsaw puzzle.

I bought this as a gift but never gave it to the person. Why? Well, I should have listened to the reviewer who said that this version of the game was not a "full" version. The suits—cracks, dots, and bams, especially—only go to number 6 and that's not accurate. I don't play American Mahjong so I can't comment on that version in this set. I bought this game because the description on the box indicated that the company had consulted a cultural advisor about it. I’ll take a look at their YouTube videos describing the play but I think this version will simply confuse people who may decide to actually learn how to play the game! So, if you buy this game, go with the saying that there are as many ways to play Mahjong as there are players! I do NOT recommend this version of Mahjong—there are many good tile sets available on Amazon that don’t cost much more than this one and good rules are readily available online.

The Ravensberger brand is synonymous with quality construction, and this game doesn't disappoint. All the boards and cardboard tiles are very sturdy, printed perfectly, and easy to remove from their frames. All the boards, screens, and tile boards came securely wrapped with paper bands to keep them from sliding around and rubbing on one another. The box itself is heavy and securely put together. Top notch quality! There are two instruction booklets included: one for the Americanized version of MahJong, and the other for the Chinese version. Both booklets are printed in English, so that was a relief. This is a game for FOUR players, so I haven't yet had the chance to try learning it as we need one more player (I'm looking at you, next-door-neighbor!). But the instructions seem pretty easy to follow, and on each player's screen are some simplified instructions to remind them of how to play the game. I appreciate that! I'm hoping to learn this game soon and then purchase a real tile set, but for now, these small tiles will work just fine. They are so well made that I expect they will last quite a while. I think this is a good value, even though everything is made of paper and cardboard. There are a LOT of pieces in this set. I'd buy it again.

I wanted to teach my grandchildren Mah Jongg so I tried this game. They live in another state so I didn’t have my set. This was fun, but not like the real game.

The set is not a good teaching tool. Not what I expected. It will not be used.

I recently got a Mahjong set and tried to teach myself how to play. The first thing that I discovered is that there are a lot of different rulesets out there are they're not all that easy to learn from. I even watched a few videos, but they weren't much better. This Meet Mahjong set makes learning the game super easy. The rules are easy to read and understand, and the player screens make it simple to remember how to play. The two most popular rule sets (Chinese and American) are included. I recommend starting with Chinese because I think that's a little easier to pick up. All of the cardboard is thick and has clear and colorful printing. The Mahjong "tiles" are cardboard, which may seem like a negative, but it was necessary to keep the cost down. I definitely appreciate this especially since I already have a set. I recommend trying the game out with the cardboard chits to see if you like it and then buying a resin set if you do. If you are thinking about getting into Mahjong and you don't have anyone to teach you, I think this set is the way to go!

Some background: I've been teaching mah jongg professionally for nearly 15 years, and playing the American version since I was in middle school in the late 1970s. I have taught at libraries, country clubs, city park and rec centers, and to private individuals, and I am considered an advanced National Mah Jongg League player. So these are my thoughts: This is a cute game for kids and family night, but it is extremely different from either the Asian or American (NMJL & Wright Patterson) versions of the game. Please do NOT purchase this to learn to play the actual games. This set does not teach the rules of those games. First off, this set contains neither Flower (aka "season") nor the 16 Winds tiles. It only contains craks, dots, bams, the dragons, and jokers (for American play). Thus, you cannot play the majority of NMJL hands with this set. And you cannot play Asian or Wright-Patterson versions without these tiles either. Even stranger, instead of four of each of the suited tiles and dragons (as required in both the Asian and American versions of the game), this set comes with EIGHT of each tile, and only up to the number 6! Completely omitted are any 7s, 8s, or 9s in any of the three suits! It is literally MISSING 60 tiles needed to play any actual version of mah jongg!! The quality of the decent for a board game. The tiles are fairly heavyweight for cardboard, and they punched easily out of their frames, leaving the cardboard tiles with smooth edges. You can see my photo that shows this. Please do NOT buy this game as a way to learn mah jongg. It is only tangentially related to the real games played both in the United States and around the world. As a retired K-8 teacher, I would say this is a good game for kids or family game night, similar to Rummy Kub. That's why I give it three stars. For adults trying to learn the actual game, I would have given it one star. Hopefully Think Fun, which is a fantastic company for educational games, will update their marketing and description of this game so that it is not misleading to adult buyers