New Mah Jongg Card Coming

Posted: January 17, 2025 | Author: dana lange | Filed under: Uncategorized |3 Comments

For all the Mah Jongg Enthusiasts you know that April 1 is the start of our new year. My gentile friends call it Mah Jongg Christmas. We mean it as no slight to our Jewish sisters. It just denotes the day we get our new big present, the new card.

Like all of you I don’t see the new card until April 1, or March 30 if the postman is nice to me. Once I get it I get right to work analyzing, playing, and writing the power point for my NEW CARD ORIENTATION CLASS.

The first week of April is my favorite week of the year. There is nothing I like more than analyzing! My husband often comes in the room where I am huddled over my iPad, playing Real Mah Jongg and asks, “Are still playing Mah Jongg?”

I quickly and loudly remind him, “I am WORKING.”

He knows that I take creating the PowerPoint to help people grasp the new card quickly very seriously. Last year the PowerPoint was 81 slides long. (There was a lot to talk about.)

Sadly editing of the card is not always perfect and reading it and understanding it can be complicated. I try and make everything clear for my students. I also create decision trees to help players be able to make smart decisions so they can win more.

Right now I have New Card Classes scheduled around North Carolina and a Zoom Class for my out of state and country students.

If you are interested in registering for one of my 3 hour new card classes please DM me or text me and I will give you the info on how to get in the class you want. It is a lecture class, no playing takes place. Therefore the seating is theatre style allowing for many more people in each class, but some classes do sell out.

You must pay in advance to secure a seat, but it will be a fun three hours and each year more and more players come to these classes as everyone wants to be able to beat their friends.

Here are the locations and times for the classes that are scheduled already:

Durham. April 8 6PM

Raleigh April 9 9 AM, 1 PM, 6 PM

Raleigh April 10 6 PM

Atlantic Beach April 11 3 PM

Zoom April 14 2 PM (will be taped)

Kinston April 16 9 AM

Rocky Mount April 17 afternoon

Smithfield April 22 6PM

I will also be at High Hampton in Cashiers April 25-27 teaching a beyond Beginner class that will start with the new card class. I will also be teaching beginner Mah Jongg that same weekend and April is the perfect time to learn.

Remember to order your new card now from the National Mah Jongg league. The sooner you order it the more likely you are to receive it by April 1. There are no guarantees when it comes to card deliveries.

If you would like me to come and give the new card class in your town DM or text me.

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