American Mah Jongg Lesson Variations Atomic (mock card)
Channel: Michele Frizzell #MAHJLIFE
Date: 25/11/2018

Mah jongg is the 4-player Chinese tile game that took America by storm in the 1920s.  There is an American mah jongg house rule called Atomic which includes hands that are not on the card.  I like to call the hands a Cantonese Sampler because the hands are from Cantonese style!    
 
Common Atomic Rules
• You are qualified to play Atomic if there are no Flowers or Jokers are in your dealt hand
• You must declare Atomic before the Charleston; place a marker on your rack (i.e., penny, figurine, domino, stickered tile)
• No Flowers can be passed to you; this may place a burden on your opponents
• After the Charleston, if you pick a Flower or joker from the wall, you are off-Atomic and must pick a the American mah jongg card

Allowable hands (NO FLOWERS) include one or more of the following: 
• 7 unique pair
• 7 pair (kongs allowed as 2 separate pair)
• 3 kongs and a pair
• 4 pungs and pair
• 4 chows (3 in a sequence) or pungs and a pair (any combination)

Hand value
• Atomic hands vary from $0.50 to $1.00

Mock American mah jongg card https://mahjlife.com/wiki/american-mah-jongg-article-id-162/
The mock American Mah Jongg card is timeless and generic.  This way, no matter when someone new to the game watches the video, they will have a stable reference as they learn how to play the game. 

NMJL website:  https://www.nationalmahjonggleague.org  

Mah Jongg That’s It Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/MahJonggThatsIt/ 

Below is an index of videos covering variations:
Introduction https://goo.gl/m6ZfdE 
Common House Rules https://goo.gl/qeySp1 
3-Player Options https://goo.gl/Hj7d5Y 
Super Jokers https://goo.gl/K3ALhz
Atomic https://goo.gl/L8Dg4L 
Dora https://youtu.be/5KKUztITfC4
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