Dragons
Rules
The League
Tiles
Variations
100

This dragon goes with the Crak suit.

What is the red dragon?

100

The player who throws someone's mahjongg tile must pay this.

What is double value?

100

The current President and Vice-President of the League bear what relationship to each other?

What are brothers?

100

The number of tiles in an American mahjongg set.

What is 152?

100

Some groups play that a winning hand is double value if this occurs.

What is throwing a double?

200

The white dragon is commonly referred to by this nickname:

What is "soap"?

200

A tile cannot be claimed until it is this:

What is "correctly named"?

200

Although currently closed to the public, this is the official address of the National Mah Jongg League

What is 450 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York?

200

The word used to described tiles that have a border.

What is enrobed?

200

Japanese mahjongg is also called this:

What is riichi mahjongg?

300

If a hand contains a dragon which does not match the suit tiles, it is referred to as this:

What is an opposite dragon?

300

The game starts when this happens.

What is when East throws out the first tile?

300

The motto of the National Mahjongg League

What is "Friendship and Charity"?

300

Collectors will look at this tile to determine who manufactured the set.

What is the One Bam?

300

In this style, you can't throw a tile unless you can account for three of the tiles already on the table

What is playing hot?

400

Traditionally, this dragon goes with Easts and Wests.

What is the Green dragon?

400

This is the procedure if the wrong wall is pushed out and tiles are picked from the wrong wall:

What is all hands should be thrown in and the game ceases?
400

Ruth Unger, who served as NMJL President for 51 years, ascended to the presidency in this year.

What is 1964?

400

Mahjongg tiles manufactured in the 1940s and '50s were commonly made of this material.

What is Bakelite?

400

A hand that is all pairs with no flowers and no jokers.

What is atomic?
500

The first year the National Mah Jongg League used a white dragon for a zero.

What is 1980?

500

When a player's last move before declaring Mah Jongg is to redeem a joker from their own rack, they have executed this move.

What is finesse?

500
This woman founded the League in 1937 from her home on Central Park South.

Who is Viola Cecil?

500

The year that Jokers were introduced into National Mah Jongg League play.

What is 1960?

500

This version of mahjongg is often found on military bases.

What is Wright-Patterson?

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