Winning American Mah Jongg Strategies: A Guide for the Novice Player - Learn the "Secrets of Success" to Strategize, Excel and Win at Mah Jongg

by Elaine Sandberg

Master the fascinating and rewarding game of American Mahjong with this guide for beginners.

"Strategies, strategies, strategies! If I only knew more strategies I could win more games!" is the frequent lament of beginning Mahjong players. Following up on the success of her acclaimed book, A Beginner's Guide to American Mah Jongg , bestselling author Elaine Sandberg's new book offers novice players the advice they need to excel at the game of Mahjong. Winning American Mah Jongg Strategies: A Guide for the Novice Player is the strategy guidebook that provides American Mahjongg beginners with the practical information they need to build hands, improve game-play skills, strategize, and win!

This easy-to-follow, comprehensive book teaches players how to overcome common difficulties and provides the knowledge to sharpen strategic skills and increase win ratios. By showing beginners how to see and utilize different strategic elements and scenarios, players learn how to elevate their skills.

Challenges covered in this Mahjongg book include: Winning American Mah Jongg Strategies is a gem of a book that is the perfect gift for Mahjong players of all ages!

Genres: Reference

96 pages, Paperback

First published March 10, 2012

Reviews

[Laura Cushing · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a pretty good book, but it could have been GREAT except for a terrible error in judgement on the part of the author.

Throughout the book, the hands and strategies referred to are using the 2010 American Mah Jongg league card. However, the card included in the book is the 2009 card - which has entirely different hands.

This card is only used for one small portion - a quiz at the end. This could have easily been done using the 2010 card, if such was included. Or she could have referenced the 2009 card throughout. As it was, it was terribly awkward to follow along throughout the book without the correct card as a visual reference.

Fortunately I have a friend who was playing mah jongg in 2010, and she loaned her card to me. I will give this book another read through using that card and I expect to get more out of it as a result.

Even without the card though, I did learn a lot of strategy tips that are very helpful for a beginning player like me.

Also, the correct title for this book - Winning American Mah Jongg Strategies: A Guide for the Novice Player - doesn't show up when you search goodreads. I had to put it in by ISBN.

[Irene · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very good book to help beginners improve their game. I read the first part of it, and then put it down for several months to give myself a chance to use the new strategies I had learned. After a few months I read the rest of the book. It has helped me a lot.

I do agree with Laura Cushing's review in that at least she could have used a "sample" card and included it with the book, instead of referencing one card, and then including another. That made NO sense. That's why I only gave it 4 stars.

[Jill List · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good review for mah jongg players.