Accolades for the Missy Mahjong 2026 NMJL Card Review

I am flattered by the praise received from Order of the Tile, a newsletter about all things American Mahjong. Read the excerpt from the newsletter below. “Prim” is an impressive writer!

She Read It First

The 2026 NMJL card arrived in mailboxes on March 17th. By March 20th, a woman known throughout the American Mahjong community as Missy Mahjong, had already published a full strategic review. Three days. While the rest of the community was still tearing open envelopes, she had read the card, analyzed it, and put her observations in writing for anyone who needed a head start.

That kind of speed is not an accident. It is the product of years of deep

engagement with the game, the kind that turns a player into a resource. Based in Nashville with a presence in Chicago and Lake Geneva, Missy teaches, runs social clubs, hosts retreats, and has built a following of players who trust her read of the game as much as their own. Her reviews are, by her own description, both data-driven and intuitive... she looks at what the numbers say and what patterns emerge visually when she studies the card. Both things matter.

Her first impressions of the 2026 card align with what the sharpest players at the table are already discovering. She called out the flower situation immediately: sextets, bouquets, pungs appearing throughout, and advised players not to pass a single flower during the Charleston regardless of what hand they think they are building. She noted the wind landscape is gentler this year, with fewer full NEWS melds and more flexibility in wind pairing, and she flagged the joker question directly: on a pung-and-kong-heavy card like this one, the instinct to expose early is a trap. Hold your jokers. Let patience be your strategy.

She was first. She was right. And she has been doing this long enough to know the difference between a card that punishes you and one that rewards you for reading it carefully. This one rewards you.

Find her full 2026 review and everything else she publishes at missymahjong.com. If you are not already following her, now would be the time.

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Missy Mahjong 2026 NMJL card review