Potting Shed Designs presents

Mah Jong Cards v.2.2

© 2001—2002 Potting Shed Designs / Gareth J. M. Saunders

Why Mah Jong Cards?

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Being a Mah Jong fan I am

always keen to play the game
wherever I go, and carrying a set
of bone and bamboo tiles around
is, I’m sure you’ll agree, often not
the most practical solution. So
why not play instead with cards?

The Mah Jong Set

This set contains 144 small cards,
including seasons and flowers,


and an extra 8 jokers.

I have simply used the set as

presented in the Windows
TrueType Mah Jong font freely
available from
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http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/ How to print your Mah Jong Cards
~mn8y-kt/font/mahj_tt.zip I have reproduced only one of each card on the following pages. This means that for
an entire Mah Jong set you will have to print each page the following number of
This produces a clean, simple and times:
universal design and also more
importantly keeps the file size to a
minimum.
Page 2
Given the limitation of the font all zxcvbn
Bamboos 1-9
seasons and flowers are identical,
distinguished by numbers and Dots 1-9 m,.asd x 4 times
colours.
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Format
Page 3
As TrueType fonts can only be
displayed in one colour I have
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Characters 1-9
adopted the following colour
scheme — with thanks to Tom
Winds uio123 x 4 times
Dragons
Sloper for keeping me right.
Jokers 456799
Bamboo — Green Page 4
Dots — Black
Characters — Red
Winds — Blue
Seasons 1-4 8888 x 1 time
Flowers 1-4
Dragons — as dragon 8888
Seasons — Black
Jokers — Brown

I have also included in the centre

of the cards a code according to
the card’s type:

Bamboo — 1-9B
Dots — 1-9D
Characters — 1-9C
Winds — E, S, W or N
These cards are copyright © 2001—2002 Potting Shed Designs /
Dragons — C (Red), F (Green) or
Gareth J. M. Saunders
P (White)
Updated Saturday 31 August 2002
Seasons — 1-4 in red
mj@gareth-and-jane-saunders.co.uk
Flowers — 1-4 in blue
http://www.gareth-and-jane-saunders.co.uk
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2002
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Gareth JM
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