Lara of Lara's Mahjong Edit reading the 2026 NMJL card

Free one-page cheat sheet

5 parentheticals
that unlock the hand

The fine print on the 2026 card is doing a lot more than you think. This free one-page cheat sheet takes five hands and translates every parenthetical into plain English, plus the variation counts. That hand that looks like one hand? Sometimes it's 63.

What's inside

  • 1Five parentheticals, translated. The little notes under the hands, rewritten in plain English so you know exactly what counts and what does not.
  • 2The variation counts. How many ways each hand can actually be made, so you can see the flexibility you have been walking past.
  • 3Print it and tuck it in your case. Pull it out mid-game when the rack looks tangled and you need a fast read.
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