The Strid Table method breaks American Mahjong into manageable pieces, so the card becomes a roadmap — not a wall of numbers and colors.
Students first learn the tile families, Mahjong vocabulary, and the building blocks of a hand before being asked to make sense of the card.
The nine sections of the NMJL card are taught as “neighborhoods,” while individual hands are the “street addresses” — so you learn to assess where your tiles may belong before narrowing to a specific hand.
The same terminology, visual cues, and sequence are used lesson to lesson, so you’re never relearning how something is explained.
Tiles → melds/patterns → card → setup → play → Charleston & strategy. Concepts build on one another rather than arriving at random.
You learn why a rule or decision matters — not only what you’re supposed to do.
The goal is a repeatable way to organize your thinking, so you can sit down at another table and play with confidence.
Sometimes a simple phrase can make a complicated concept click. Throughout our lessons, we use familiar expressions and helpful memory cues to make Mahjong easier to understand, remember, and put into practice.