The table is open. Pull up a chair.

Spring ended with the whole world agreeing with us. Summer begins with a harder question: now that everyone has pulled up a chair, what do we do with a fuller table? In the first letter of the season, Prim notes that the story is no longer that a magazine discovered mahjong, it is that the press cannot stop, from Bloomberg to PBS to the local library bulletin, all in the same season. She offers the gentle correction the newcomers need: the game came from China long ago, and the American version was given its standard by the National Mah Jongg League in 1937. Then the summer shift on the 2026 card, from reading it to truly knowing it: where the jokers live, the two traps the card was built to fool you with, and the quiet art of pivoting within a section. A reader named Helen wanted to display her tiles rather than bag them, so Prim answers with real ways to show a set off. A teacher in Fargo, Chris Welsand of Mahj in the Midwest, is carrying the game across the northern plains. How to personalize the one part of the table that should be yours alone. The summer's record attempt in Summerville. And the most poignant fact of the season: how a pandemic taught millions to find each other through a screen. Subscribe at https://www.orderofthetile.com.#AmericanMahjong #NMJL #Prim #OrderOfTheTile #MahjongSurge2026 #SummerMahjong #2026CardStrategy #Quints #Jokers #MahjongTraps #MahjongDisplay #LuciteBox #ChrisWelsand #MahjInTheMidwest #FargoMahjong #PersonalizedMahjongMat #MahjongMarathon #GuinnessWorldRecord #PandemicMahjongBoom #ILoveMahj #NationalMahJonggLeague