Modern Mahjong Halloween Week Hybrid Virtual Online and In-Person Mah Jongg Tournament

Modern Mahjong Halloween Week Hybrid Online & In-Person Six Round Mah Jongg Tournament to benefit the Alzheimer's Association. 

We invite you to join us for a virtual in-person or online in our ModernMahjong.com Tournament at your time, day and convenience.

Play online or in-person. 

Enter as many times as you want in this six round tournament.

Prizes will include Amazon Gift Cards for first through third place.

Additionally, high round winners will win a Modern Mahjong gift card. 

If we have over 75 registered players, additional places will be awarded prizes.

Play at your convenience!

Play anytime from October 29, 2024 through November 4, 2024 at 6 p.m. EST. (If you need to play earlier, please email us once your entire group is registered and we can send Score Sheets early.)

Players can play online on any website with NMJL rules or at their in-person regular games.

Before the tournament kicks off in October, we will email each player their custom Modern Mahjong Score Sheet for players to keep track of your own scores, and play six rounds of four games (total of 24 for the entire tournament) on your own schedule!

At checkout, please select the website or if you are playing against bots for the bot prize.

• Play can be on any of the following websites that play by NMJL rules:

• Mahjongtime.com,

• Realmahjongg.com,

• Myjongg.net,  

• I Love Mahj,

• the NMJL online game,

• Mahjong 4 Friends,

• Bot Player for a different prize of a pair of Mahjong Dice™ and

• in-person.

• You can register as part of a foursome or a bot player.

• If you have a foursome to play, great! Your foursome can register individually or one of you can complete the payment and registration for all four. If you have multiples of four in your group, feel free to change tables for each round. 

• If you don't have a foursome and want to play online, please do not register. Email us to let us know what website you play on and your time zone. We will do our best to match players in a table of four on your desired platform. 

• Please note, if there are not four players for your specific platform, and you would still like to play, you can enter and play against bots. However, there will a different prize system will be awarded for players playing against bots.  

• When registering, please be sure to select which platform you would like to be playing on. By checking out, you are confirming that we can email you and the other three other players that you indicated you will be playing with. 

• It will be up to the groups to schedule time of play and create their table on their desired platform. 

• The tournament will consist of six rounds of four games each round over the course of the tournament. 

• Entry fee is $36 per player.

• A percentage of proceeds will be donated to The Longest Day fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Association. 

• Within a week before the tournament, you will receive information via email about the tournament including a score sheet to complete for each game and each round. Scoring is the same value as the points on the card.

• The winner of each game will be awarded the value of the hand on the 2024 NMJL card.

• PLEASE DO NOT LOOK TO THE WEBSITE YOU ARE PLAYING ON FOR SCORING.

  • Minus 10 points for two exposures

  • Minus 25 points for three exposures

• Bonus of 10 points for a self-picked mah jongg. This includes exchanging for a Joker and then calling mah jongg.

• Bonus of 20 points for a winning hand with no Jokers (Jokerless hand) but not for hands in the Singles and Pairs section.

• In a wall game, all players that do not have a dead hand are awarded 10 points for a wall game. A player that has a dead hand gets 0 points. Please note: Many sites allow you to call a player’s hand dead. If you are playing on a site that doesn’t call a hand dead, and another player alerts the table you are dead and you are, you get 0 points in a wall game.

• Player discarding the tile that results in Mah Jongg:

• If you need to start earlier, please email us and we can arrange for your Score Sheets to be sent earlier.

• Don't worry West coast players, you do not need to start playing that early.

• Play can take place at any time between the kick off and the close of the tournament. 

• Players results must be emailed to ModernMahjong@gmail.com by 6 p.m. EST on November 4, 2024. Note that our email address has one G in Mahjong. 

• Depending on the number of players prizes and number of prizes awarded will increase. Initially, prizes will be awarded for first place through third place. As more players enter, prize value and number of prizes increase. Information about prizes will be posted shortly. Prizes to be awarded will be posted before the tournament.

• If at the time of the tournament, we have players that are playing at tables with bots, we will announce the prizes for "bot tables" that will be awarded before the tournament. 

• Deadline to register is October 2, 2024. If it is after this date and you would like to register, please email modernmahjong@gmail.com and we will try to accommodate your registration. 

• Registration fees are not refundable after September 12, 2024 If after registration you cannot play, your registration fee will be included in the donation to the selected charity.       

• We understand that each platform has slightly different nuances. We appreciate your understanding that we are trying to reach and include as many mahjong players that would like to take part so these differences will be overlooked. 

• More details will be on the Score Sheet and how East will verify the players scores at their table will be sent by email. Scoring will be based on the values of the 2024 NMJL card with:

• bonus for Jokerless hands, 

• bonus for self-picked,

• penalty for throwing the winning tiles to two or more exposures, and

• 10 points will be awarded for wall games.  

• With regards to a "dead hand":  If a player’s hand is called dead by another player in the messages and/or in the game, and the hand is dead, they do not get points for a wall game. 

• If during a game with four players, a player loses connection for a single game, they do not get any points if the Bot that replaces them wins and/or if there is a wall game.

• Please email ModernMahjong@gmail.com if you have any questions.  

• We are looking forward to our ModernMahjong tournament and hope this is the first of many fun and exciting events!