Guides

• What to pass in the Charleston
  Which three tiles to pass in the American mahjong Charleston: pass what none of your closest hands use, never a joker, and when a blind pass helps. With the order of passes.
• Joker swap rules: when can you take a joker?
  When you can swap a tile for a joker in American mahjong: on your turn, from an exposure, with the exact tile the joker stands for. Discarded jokers are dead.
• How many tiles away is my hand?
  How to count how many tiles away your American mahjong rack is from a hand: count what fits, jokers only in groups of three or more, and subtract from 14. With a worked example.
• Where can jokers be used?
  Jokers stand in for any tile in a pung, kong, quint or sextet, never in a single or a pair. What that means for year hands, NEWS, singles and pairs, calling and discards.
• Writing your card's hands for Jokerly
  Jokerly notation and the practice hands.