Crak the Card
The card loves a 6
Two educators, working apart, noticed the same thing.
By Mahj Tile Talk's count, the number 6 appears in 272 of 678 hand variations on the 2026 NMJL card, nearly forty percent, a figure echoed in the publication's statistics installment.
The Salt Lake Mahjong Club reached the same neighborhood from a different direction, calling the 2 and 6 pairing the single strongest pairing on the card, with 110 hands wanting both at once.
When two careful readers who have never met circle the same tile, that tile is telling you where the card wants to go. Prim suggests you listen.