Five mahjong group names a press: tile puns, a weekly game, clubs and leagues, and tables that mostly talk.
Mahjong Group Names
Monday Mahjong Mavens
Looking for a Fourth Player
Bamboo Grove Mahjong Club
Pung and Games
Mahjong Before Carpool
How it works
These mahjong group names come five at a press, from Soap Dragons to Still Sorting Tiles. All 84 lean on the game's own words: tiles, winds, dragons, racks and the wall. None is about betting or money.
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Unique mahjong group names from the tiles
Tile puns is the first set in the menu, with 21 built on bams, craks, dots, winds and jokers: Wise Craks, Dot Dot Pung, Joker in Every Rack. In American mahjong the white dragon is also known as soap and the one bamboo as the bird, which gives Soap Dragons and Bird on a Bam.
Mahjong team names for a club or a league
Club and league names has 20, such as Bamboo Grove Mahjong Club, Green Dragon League and Tile Guild. Names for a weekly game has Tea and Tiles, Mahjong and Muffins and Four Racks Weekly.
Questions and answers
What are funny mahjong group names?
Still Sorting Tiles, I Needed That Tile, Joker Hoarders, Can't Read My Own Rack and Gossip and Dragons are in More talk than tiles, the set for a table that chats more than it plays.
Why do some names have sparrows in them?
The game was first called by a Chinese name that means sparrow, and the clack of shuffled tiles is said to sound like sparrows chattering. That gives Clattering Sparrows and Sparrows at the Table.
What do pung, kong and quint mean?
In American mahjong a pung is three of the same tile, a kong is four and a quint is five. The Charleston is a set of required passes of tiles. Pung Intended and Chat and Charleston lean on them.
Is any name about betting?
No. No name is about betting or money, and none was taken from a maker of sets, a rule card publisher, a league or an app. No trademark register was checked.
A list of 84 mahjong group names written by Wheel of Teams on 2026-10-03 and filed in four groups. Every name carries a word of the game: the tiles, the bams, craks and dots, the winds, the dragons, the flowers, the wall or the rack. No name is about betting or money. None was taken from a maker of sets, a rule card publisher, a league, an app or a film, and any match with a real club is a coincidence. The game terms the names lean on were looked up on 2026-10-03 in three English Wikipedia articles, text under CC BY-SA 4.0: Mahjong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong), Mahjong tiles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong_tiles) and American mahjong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mahjong). Each name of two or more words was searched on English Wikipedia the same day, and the .com and .org address of each name was asked for as well. A name we coined that turned out to be a title, a band, a company, an event or a real group was taken out; an everyday saying or a plain term was kept. Plain words are shared widely, so somebody somewhere may already use one of these names. Compared by script on 2026-10-03 with every other list on this site: no name is repeated. Nothing was checked against a trademark register. Licence: own work