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There are many valid strategies that can be used to play Mah-Jongg. Some strategies apply only to particular styles of Mah-Jongg, and some strategies apply across the board. Important: there is usually no single "best" or "right" strategy for a particular situation. Strategies must be adjusted depending on the situation (considering the probabilities, the other players, the length of the wall, the amount at stake, etc.). The skilled player always uses a flexible strategic approach.

How much is luck and how much is skill?
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I have no idea how to determine how much is luck and how much is skill in mah-jongg. The games of Chess and Go are 0% luck and 100% skill. But there are random elements in mah-jongg (the order of tiles in the wall, which hands players are going for, the dice roll). Is mah-jongg 70% luck and 30% skill? Is it 50% luck and 50% skill? Sixty-forty? 42-58? Who can know?
What about different variants? There's a higher luck ratio in Japanese mah-jongg than in American mah-jongg, by design (Japanese rules add more random elements to increase the payments). But what's the ratio in any mah-jongg variant? How would you even measure such a question?
All I can tell you is: the more experienced/skilled player will win more often than less experienced players, but even the most highly skilled players are subject to the vagaries of chance.

Note: You can find much more information on American and Chinese Official strategy (and on etiquette and error-handling) in my book, The Red Dragon & The West Wind. Also see my strategy column.

o Don't grab the first discard that completes one of your sets. Many beginners think they are doing good if they're making lots of melds (Chows, Pungs, Kongs) -- they don't realize that melding is an onerous duty, not a sign of success! If you watch experienced players, you will see that they do not necessarily grab the first Pung opportunity that comes along, for several reasons:

o Keep a Pair. It's harder to make a pair if you have only one tile than it is to make a Pung if you have a pair. So if you have a pair, don't be too quick to claim a matching tile to form a Pung.

o Have Patience. When first learning to play, it's typical to grab every opportunity to meld a Pung or Chow. In the early stages of a game, you should instead keep in mind that there are a lot of good tiles available for drawing from the Wall - and by not melding your tiles, you don't clue everyone as to what you're doing, and you stand a chance to get a Concealed Hand.

o Be Flexible. As you build your hand, be ready to abandon your earlier thinking about how to build it as you see what kind of tiles others are discarding. If you are playing Western Mah-Jongg with restrictions on winning hands, don't be too quick to form your only Chow; there will be other chances.

o Don't Let Someone Else Win. As much as you want to go out yourself, sometimes it's wiser to keep anybody else from winning. Especially, you don't want to "feed" a high-scoring hand. If a player has melded three sets of all one suit, that's especially dangerous (you might feed a Pure or Clean hand, and have to pay a high price); thus the player announces the danger when making a third meld in one suit.

o Watch the discards and watch the number of tiles in the Wall. As it approaches the end, the tension increases - and it's more important to be careful what you discard when there are fewer tiles remaining to be drawn. If the number of tiles in the Wall is getting low, don't discard any tiles which you do not see in the discard area.

Below you will find strategies written specifically for American, Japanese, Chinese, and other forms of mah-jongg.

NOTE: American mah-jongg is completely different from all other forms. So I refer to those other forms as "un-American" as a shorthand way of saying "forms of mah-jongg other than the American variety.".

o The "1-4-7 rule" is a good playing strategy (for all forms of Mah-Jongg except American (style similar to NMJL) in which there are no "chows"). If the player to your right discards a 4, and you don't have another of those to discard, you /might/ be all right if you discard a 1 or a 7. Remember that these number sequences are key: 1-4-7, 2-5-8, 3-6-9. Between any two numbers in these sequences there can be an incomplete chow; if a player throws one number, then that player probably does not have a chow that would be completed by that number or the number at the other end. Discarding tiles IDENTICAL to what another player discards is always good, if you can. This 1-4-7 principle also applies to any five-in-a-row pattern (assuming the hand is otherwise complete - you have two complete sets and a complete pair, waiting to go out with a five-in-a-row pattern as shown by ** in the table below).

o Try to go out waiting for multiple tiles (not just one). Imagine that you have three complete sets and two pairs. Imagine that one pair is 2 Bams, and you draw a 3 Bam from the wall -- which tile do you discard now? In this situation, many experienced players will discard a 2 Bam, keeping 2-3. A two-way incomplete chow call is better than a two-pair call.

Learn to shape the hand into calling patterns that give you multiple chances to win, such as the following:

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