My dearest table guests, welcome back.
This is the order of the tile and I am Prim.
You are invited to enjoy issue #8 and this week the holiday is
behind us, the community has settled and another Sunday is on
the calendar that Prim cannot let pass.
Without a word, the wall has been red.
Prim is writing this on the Thursday after National Mahjong
Day, which is a peculiar and lovely week to be a mahjong
writer. The holiday came and went, the
posts rolled in and tapered off, and the community has settled
into a quieter, steadier kind of energy.
The tournament circuit has gone home.
The newer players who tiptoed in during the holiday have stayed.
The Facebook groups are back to arguing, as promised, and Prim
is grateful for every one of them.
But there is another Sunday on the calendar this week, and Prim
will not pretend she is not thinking about it.
Mother's Day is 3 days from now. The time has come, and a game
that is played almost entirely by women cannot let that Sunday
pass without a word. So before Prim goes any further,
she would like to speak to the mothers at these tables, to the
daughters who taught them, to the daughters who were taught by
them, and to every woman who carries the name of a woman who
handed her something worth handing down.
Prim has said in these pages before that she is the
originator of the game in her family, which is true.
She learned as an adult. She taught her mother Nan, and
Nan is now a shark. But Prim was handed plenty of
other things by other women long before the tiles arrived.
How to keep a kitchen. How to keep a table?
How to keep a friendship. For 40 years, Gee, who never
touched a tile, taught Prim how to be present in a room, which
is the foundation of every skill that eventually matters at a
mahjong table. Everyone of you reading this has
a version of that story. Someone taught you how to be at
a table. This Sunday is for her.
Which brings us to the issue in front of you, and to the tagline
Prim has been carrying all week. The wall has been read.
After six weeks of tournament season, after a holiday that
invited the whole country to look up from its own rack, after
100,000 women posting what they picked and what they passed, The
wall has been read in a way it rarely is in a normal spring.
The card has been studied, the season has been scouted, the
community has taken a collective inventory and now we are in the
stretch of the season where strategy deepens because
everyone has a little more information than they had a
month ago. This issue is about what to do
with that information. We will look at the 2468
section, which is where a surprising number of games are
quietly won and lost. We will talk about Mother's Day
gifts that are not performatively expensive, but
that a player will actually use. We will meet one of the most
important teaching figures this community has ever produced.
We will look at the birth of the Mashong World Championship,
which is newer than you think. And we will spend a moment with
the Playmat, which Prim would argue is the single most
underrated object on the table. Pull up your chair.
The wall is built. Let us begin.
Let us begin with what everyone is talking about.
This is the draw. 2 quick notes before we begin.
The Miss Mahjong and Miss Heirloom Collaboration bundle
sold out this week and Prim watch the groups light up about
it in real time. The community is hungry for the
kind of gift that says I see you without saying now perform.
Prim has something of her own arriving to meet that moment,
and she will tell you about it further down.
The week after a national holiday is always a strange one
in any community, and the mahshong world is no exception.
The photos have slowed, the hashtag has cooled, the
tournament season travellers are home unpacking.
And yet something about the community's pulse feels
different than it did two weeks ago.
The best way Prim can describe it is that the community has
exhaled. The run from the 2026 card drop
through Greenbrier, through Vegas, through National Mahshong
Day was a long one, and the whole ecosystem has earned this
week what it is using the week for.
Interestingly, is absorbing. The Facebook groups this week
have been full of post mortem posts.
Players reviewing which hands they have actually closed on the
new card and which ones keep eluding them.
Teachers posting video breakdowns of the trickier 2026
combinations. Newer players finally asking the
questions they were too shy to ask 3 weeks ago when everyone
was still showing off. Prim has seen half a dozen.
Can someone explain the consecutive runs section like I
am? 5 posts in the last 48 hours and
the responses have been thoughtful, patient and
generous. Something about the air has
softened. Tournament season ends, teaching
season begins. The community is also quietly
turning towards Sunday. Prim has seen a flurry of gift
ideas for my mum who just started playing posts in the
groups, and a matching flurry of my daughter is making me play
this weekend posts from the other direction.
Every generation in this community is reaching for the
other one this week. The mothers who played for
decades are being asked, sometimes awkwardly, sometimes
gracefully, to let their grown daughters into the game.
The daughters who learnt first are extending a hand back and
somewhere in the middle is the woman who is the only player in
her family who is wondering if she could be the one who finally
starts the tradition. Prim sees you start it.
Sunday is a fine day to set out a set and a plate of something
sweet and wait to see who sits down.
One last note on the week. Registration for the summer
cruise and retreat season has opened in earnest and the
community is doing that thing it does every May, which is
pretending to be indifferent while secretly filling out the
forms. Prim will cover the open events
in Set your rack below. For now.
Suffice it to say that the Mediterranean cruise is getting
close to full and the San Diego weekend has a wait list.
Rumour Prim cannot confirm but would not discourage you from
acting on. If you have been thinking about
a summer event, this is the week to stop thinking and start
clicking. One more current running through
the groups this week. The Hallmark Mahjong movie has
the community in a flutter and Prim has watched the
screenshots. The speculation and the watch
party posts pile up by the hour. She has thoughts.
She also has a small bundle for the occasion which she will tell
you about further down. Which brings us to crack the
card, the 2468 section. On the 2026 card, Prim has a
confession and she is going to make it in print because the
longer she plays, the more she believes this and the more
surprised she is that it is not said out loud more often.
If you want to understand the 2026 card, start with the 2468
section. Not consecutive runs, not
singles and pairs, not the flashy winds and Dragons hands
that everyone wants to chase. Start with the quiet,
methodical, often overlooked 2468 section, because this is
where a shocking number of games are actually decided, and it is
where Prim believes the 2026 card is most honest about what
it wants from you. Here is the case.
The 2468 section on this year's card rewards one kind of player
and punishes every other kind. It rewards the player who
commits before the table forces her hand.
The hands in this section cluster around clean groupings
of even numbers, often in single suit or two suit configurations,
and the tile distribution in any given wall is perfectly
predictable. 246 and eight of each suit each appear four times
in the tile set. There are no surprises in the
supply. What makes this section
difficult is not scarcity, it is commitment.
The 2468 hands require you to decide early and hold your
nerve, because the tiles you need are also the tiles everyone
else is throwing freely in the first half of the game.
And if you are still shopping around when the board tightens,
you have missed the window. Not by a little, by the whole
game. Here are three things Prim wants
you to understand immediately #1 the early game is for
collection, not exploration. The most common mistake Prim
sees in the 2468 section is the mistake of optionality.
A player picks up a lovely run of even tiles in her deal.
She stares at the card and she tells herself this could go
several directions. Let me see what the Charleston
brings. The Charleston brings her two
more even tiles. She tells herself this is
getting interesting. Let me keep my options open.
By round four she has 10 tiles that would make a beautiful 2468
hand and three or four stragglers.
She has not decided whether to keep by round 7, three of her
needed tiles have already been thrown by other players who were
shedding them early, and she is holding a rack that cannot
close. This is the 2468 Trap, and Prim
is going to name it. Plainly, it is the single most
expensive habit a capable player can have on this card.
The antidote is a deadline. By the time the courtesy is
over, you know whether you are in the 2468 section or out of
it. If you are in, you are
collecting every even tile you see.
If you are out, you are letting them go without a sigh.
The players who win the 2468 hands are not the ones with the
best luck, they are the ones who committed 3 rounds earlier than
everyone else. Hesitation after the second pass
is not thoughtfulness, it is loss #2 the middle game is for
reading the other racks. Once you are committed, the 2468
section becomes a game of careful observation.
Here is the thing about even number hands that no one tells
you plainly. Every player at the table is
watching the discards, but most of them are watching for what
they need. In the middle game of A2468
hand, you need to be watching for what other players are
shedding. If a player on your right is
throwing 246 8 tiles freely in rounds 4 and five, she is almost
certainly not in your section and her discards are gifts.
If a player across the table has stopped throwing even tiles in
round 5 after having thrown them generously in rounds 2 and
three, pay attention. She may have just committed to
an even number hand herself, and from this point forward she is a
competitor you did not know you had.
The 2026 cards 2468 section has a particular wrinkle Prim wants
named out loud. Several of the hands in this
section require 2 specific pairs in addition to the even number
runs, and the pairs are often in DOTS or BAMS. If you are
building A2468 hand, your DOTS or BAMS pairs are your pressure
point. The second tile of each pair is
often the last tile you need, and the one the table is least
likely to discard late in the game.
The defensive move against a suspected 2468 player is not to
hold all your evens, it is to hold one tile of any matching
pair she might need long enough to see if she exposes.
That is the kind of thinking this card rewards I do not need.
This tile is not a good enough reason to throw it.
Your opponent might need it very much #3 the late game is for
knowing when to fold. Here is the hardest lesson, and
Prim will keep it short. Sometimes in A2468 hand, it
becomes clear by round eight or nine that the tiles are simply
not coming. The pair you needed has been
thrown and called and gone. The single you are holding for
has not surfaced. The wall is getting thin.
A good 2468 player knows when to stop building and start
defending. Switch your attention from
closing your own hand to preventing the player who is
actually going to close. Throw your less useful tiles.
Hold the tiles that might feed your opponents.
Finish the game as a wall, not as a disappointed builder.
The 2468 section teaches you discipline in both directions.
Patience to commit, courage to let go.
On this card, both skills matter and most players only learn one
of them. Two.
This section is where Prim believes the difference between
competent and excellent Mashong players lives on any card in any
year, but especially on this one.
The even numbers are unglamorous.
They do not get featured on the quote cards.
They do not show up in the Instagram Reels, but a player
who has mastered the 2468 section wins quietly,
consistently, week after week, with a rack that never looks
dramatic and a closing move that always looks inevitable.
Be that player. The wall has been red.
The evens are waiting. Now.
This publication receives questions, many questions.
And this week, the question arrived from no fewer than 9
readers in nine different forms, all pointed at the same Sunday.
This is the table is asking my mother or daughter or
mother-in-law or sister wants to learn mahjong.
Or I want to give her a gift that will bring her to the
table. And I do not know where to start
without making it feel like a chore or a lecture.
What do I actually do? Prim has opinions.
Because Prim lived this very question in her own family a
year ago when she sat down to teach Nan.
And because Prim has watched 100 of you ask it in the groups in
the last two weeks, let her give you a real answer in three parts
that will serve you this Sunday and every Sunday after.
The first part is about the gift itself, because that is where
most of the anxiety is concentrated.
Prim will tell you plainly that the most effective Mother's Day
gift for a new player is not a set.
A set is a large, expensive commitment that can feel like a
demand. Oh, you got me this beautiful
thing. Now I must use it.
Now I must learn. Now I must perform.
The gift that actually works is smaller and more specific.
A card. A beginner's guidebook.
A play mat that fits at her kitchen table.
A pair of racks and a pusher. A box of nicely printed tile
Cheat Sheets. A subscription to your favorite
online masjong game. If you would like Prim's own
pick for this Sunday, the Order of the Tile Mother's Day Mahjong
bundle on Etsy was made for exactly this question card pack
and coupon book together. Small enough to feel like an
invitation and not a demand, plus a few bonus gifts to add to
it. Any single one of these items
signals interest without obligation.
Most of them run under $60.00. All of them say I thought of
you, I noticed you are curious and I would like to make it
easier for you to say yes. Save the full set for her
birthday after she has played three games.
If she never plays three games, you have saved yourself several
$100 and she has a lovely mat she can use for cards.
The second part is about the invitation, which is where most
teaching relationships actually breakdown.
The mistake Prim sees most often is the daughter or friend who
has learnt recently and is bursting to teach, and who turns
the first game into a lecture. Prim has been guilty of this.
Nan endured it patiently for about 40 minutes before
informing Prim that she would learn mahjong.
But she would learn it at her own pace, and Prim could either
let her learn at her pace joyfully, or Prim could be the
stick that made her choose a different game to master.
This was the correct path, and Prim still exists to teach
another day. The invitation that works is one
that gives the new player room to fail, to forget to ask the
same question four times, and to decide in her own time whether
she wants to keep coming back. Play slowly.
Expose your own hand. Narrate your own thinking, not
hers. Let her make the choice about
which tile to pick up, even when you can see she is about to make
a wrong one. And for the love of everything,
do not say I told you when the wrong tile proves to be wrong.
A new player who is allowed to fail is a new player who will
sit down again next week. A new player who is corrected at
every turn is a new player who will quietly decide Mahjong is
not for her. And you will wonder why.
The third part is about the long arc.
Because Mother's Day is on Sunday and a game takes more
than one Sunday to take hold, The mothers and daughters who
become real table mates do not get there in a single afternoon.
They get there across a season. Play once this Sunday.
If it goes well, schedule the next one before you leave.
If it does not go well, schedule a simpler version, perhaps a
single Charleston with no hand completion, just to practice the
passing. Do not try to teach the whole
card in one sitting. Do not try to finish a hand.
Do not try to prove the game is fun.
Let the game prove itself. It will if you let it.
Prim and Nan played 10 or 12 halting games before something
clicked and now Nan is unbeatable and Prim is still
annoyed about it. That is how the Ark is supposed
to go. Trust the Ark One last word on
this question because it comes up in every version of it.
If your mother or daughter says no, if she tries the game and it
is not for her, that is a complete answer and Prim would
ask you to respect it. Not every family member is a
mashong player and the game is not a measure of your
relationship. G never played and Prim loved
her without reservation for every minute of her life.
The women at your table do not have to be the women at your
table. Sometimes the women at your
table are the women you found. Sometimes they are the women you
raised. Sometimes they are both.
Sunday will tell you which, and Prim would like you to be open
to the answer. Whatever it is now, this
publication makes it a point to recognise those who distinguish
themselves in the community. Not through volume.
Heavens, no. Through substance, This is who's
talking. And this week we are talking
about the teacher who wrote the book your mother-in-law probably
owns. Her name was Elaine Sandberg,
and her book A Beginner's Guide to American Mahsong has been the
entry point for more new players than anyone can count.
If you learnt from a book rather than from a teacher, there is a
good chance this was the book. If you taught someone from a
book, there is a better chance this was the book.
Elaine was a teacher 1st and an author 2nd, and the book carries
the voice of a woman who had sat across the table from thousands
of beginners and who knew exactly where each of them was
going to get confused. She wrote the book the way a
good teacher actually speaks. Prim has gone back to her copy
this week and she is struck, as she always is, by how calm
Elaine's voice is on the page. The book does not try to teach
you the strategy of a 20 year veteran in 150 pages.
It teaches you the beginning, with patience in the sequence an
actual player needs to learn it. The Charleston before the card,
the card before the hand, the hand before the defence.
Most beginner books try to teach too much at once and produce
beginners who feel overwhelmed. Elaine's book produces beginners
who feel oriented. There is a very specific
writerly generosity to this, and Prim noticed it early and has
tried to carry some of it into her own pages.
The teaching she left behind is still teaching.
Elaine passed several years ago, and the community felt it.
What Prim thinks about most on Mother's Day week of all weeks,
is that the teaching she left behind is still at work.
Her book is still in print. The book has become a small,
quiet piece of the maternal transmission that keeps this
game alive. And that is, in the end, what a
teacher is hoping for. Not to be remembered personally,
to have left something that the next generation picks up without
needing to know whose hand it first came from.
Find the book. Give it to someone if you do not
have a copy. A Beginner's Guide to American
Mashong is widely available at any bookseller and is typically
under $20. If you have a new player in your
life this Sunday, this is a lovely Mother's Day gift or
Daughter's Day gift, or just Because gift.
Slip a card inside. Write a sentence about who first
taught you the game. Pass the book forward.
Prim cannot think of a better way to spend 5 minutes and $20
this weekend. And Prim would like to think
Elaine would approve. The Wall has been read by a lot
of women because 1 teacher wrote the guide carefully.
This Sunday is a good day to remember her and to make sure
the next one has a copy. And now a brief indulgence,
because this author believes that one cannot play well if one
does not play beautifully. This is Tile Envy, where we
covet openly and without apology.
Prim has been thinking all week about the play mat, which is the
most underrated object in American mashong and which Prim
believes deserves the full issues attention one of these
days. For now, this section will do.
If you have played on a bare table and a proper mat in the
same week, you know what Prim is about to tell you.
The mat is not decoration. The mat is function dressed as
beauty, and the functions it is performing are numerous.
First, a mat protects the table. Your grandmother's dining table
was not designed to survive 1000 passes of racks and pushes and
tile covers. A good mat gives you a
designated surface to play on and protects everything beneath
it. Second, a mat changes the sound.
The click of tile on wood is sharp and travelling.
The click of tile on felt or on a properly padded mat is softer,
rounder, more companionable. You can play longer without the
room feeling loud, and you can hear your table mates more
easily, which matters more than you think.
Third, a mat defines the space. A round or square mat tells the
room this is where the game happens.
It creates a small theatre out of an ordinary table.
Some of the most beautiful mahjong photos circulating in
the community right now are photos where the mat is doing as
much aesthetic work as the tiles, and Prim finds that
entirely correct. 3 mats that Prim wants you to know about
this week. Miss Mahjong's Canopy Mat is the
one Prim has been recommending for two issues running because
she has finally had a chance to play on one and she can now
speak to it first hand. It is heavy, cushioned and
exactly the right size for a four player table.
The surface is a soft micro suede that holds the tiles in
place without sliding and the edges are clean enough to read
as a serious object. Prim would call it the best
all-purpose competitive mat on the market right now.
And the price, at around $200, is a fair reflection of the
craftsmanship. A separate note for those of you
who chased the Miss Mashong and Miss Heirloom bundle this week
and missed it. The community moved on that one
in hours, and Prim is not surprised if you were reaching
for that bundle because the Hallmark movie has you planning
a watch night. The Order of the Tiles Mashong
Movie Game Bundle is built for exactly that evening, and it
pairs beautifully with any of the mats we are sharing.
The Mahjong Lines collection of mats is where you go for
personality. Their ranch, Dusty Rose, has
been a breakout hit this season, and their Shinwa Zuri adjacent
patterns in the spring catalog are some of the most distinctive
surfaces in the community. These mats are less about
tournament grade cushioning and more about bringing a particular
aesthetic to your table. A Mahjong line mat is the mat
you buy when you want your table to look like you, not like a
tournament. Prices range from about 120 to
$200 depending on the line. Southern Sparrows mats round out
the category at a slightly more accessible price point while
maintaining the brand's signature Shinwaziri influenced
aesthetic. Jessica Rose eye for colour and
line translates beautifully to the matte surface and if you are
building a coordinated table set up that includes tile covers and
cases from the same brand, the Southern Sparrow mats complete
the story. Look for the spring colour ways.
Several of them are already at Lower Stark.
One quiet suggestion for Mother's Day.
A mat is an excellent gift for a new player or a returning player
because it suggests A dedicated game space without demanding
anything else. It fits at the kitchen table.
It does not require you to own a set.
It can double as a protected card playing surface on non
mahjong nights. And when she does decide to take
the game more seriously, the mat is already there, waiting,
having done the quiet work of saying this could be your thing
if you let it. Prim likes gifts that wait
patiently. The playmat is one of them.
Now, to matters of the calendar. Where shall one be seen this
season? This is set your rack.
The cruise is nearly sold. Destination Mahjong's
Mediterranean cruise aboard the Celebrity Ascent.
Sales May 15th to May 25th and Prim will tell you plainly that
if you have been circling this one, the decision is now.
As of this morning, registration is reporting near capacity on
the Mahjong specific staterooms and the tournament sessions on
board are confirmed to run daily.
This is a premium destination event with fares running from
the mid thousands upward depending on stateroom class,
and Prim will not pretend it is a bargain.
What it is, however, is 10 days of structured Mashong play in
the Mediterranean with a group of players who are all there for
the same reason. And that kind of concentrated
community time is rare and worth pricing.
If you have the means and the calendar move this week, San
Diego is the next big weekend. Destination Mahjong's San Diego
Double Tournament runs June 5th through 7th at a coastal resort
that Prim will not name here, but which is already generating
strong anticipatory chatter in the destination network.
Entry for the double tournament format runs in the mid hundreds.
This is one of the best regarded regional events of the early
summer and registration is moving fast enough that the wait
list rumours Prim mentioned in the draw are probably real.
Check the Destination Mahjong website today if you are
considering the summer local calendar is filling in.
Prim wrote last week about the JCC and Community Centre Circuit
and this week she can report that several of those local
events have opened their spring and early summer registrations.
Ma Shong, Texas's Horseshoe Bay Charity tournament in September
has filled its early registration slots and is now
taking regular sign ups. Mahjong Fun LA has posted 3
spring dates in May and June. The Chicago JCC circuit has a
late June weekend that is currently under subscribed,
which Prem would call an opportunity for any player in
the region who has been waiting for an approachable first
tournament. Call your local JCC ask.
The answer is more often yes than you think.
The summer set and accessory drops are starting quietly in
the background of all this event news.
The major set makers are beginning their summer drops.
Oh my Mahjong has a new summer colourway expected in the next
two weeks. The mahjong line is reportedly
releasing a limited summer collection before Memorial Day
weekend. Miss Mahjong is rumoured to be
expanding the canopy mat line with two additional colour ways.
Prim will confirm these as the announcements land.
For now. If you have been hesitating on a
spring purchase, the calendar is about to turn and the new goods
are coming this weekend. Mother's Day Sunday, May 10th
closing destination Mahjong Mediterranean cruise Celebrity
Ascent May 15th through 25th open destination.
Mahjong San Diego double tournament June 5th through 7th
open. Shriners Mahjong tournament.
Austin, TX June 20th Open destination Mahjong Atlantic
City August 16th through 18th Open Mahjong World Championship
Paris Las Vegas October 16th through 18th.
Check your local JCC spring and summer local tournament circuit,
Full event calendar at the order of the tile.com/events.
And finally, because this author believes every player deserves
at least one piece of knowledge that makes her the most
interesting person at the table, we close with crack
intelligence. Here is a fact that surprises
almost every player who hears it.
The Mahjong World Championship, which is now the largest
American mahjong tournament in the world and the marquee event
of the full calendar, is not an old institution.
It did not exist in the 1950s. It did not exist in the 1980s.
It did not exist in anything like it's current form until the
Mashang boom of the last 15 years made it possible.
The event that the community now treats as the season ending
pilgrimage is a relatively young creation and the story of how it
came to exist is a story about what happens when a community
reaches a certain size and needs a place to gather at scale.
American Mahshong had organised tournaments long before the
World Championship. Gladys Grad, whom Prim covered
in Letter 5, was running Mahshong Madness as a circuit by
the mid 1980s and regional tournaments had been happening
at hotels and resorts across the country since the National
Mahshong League was founded. What the community did not have
until recently was a single national event that could be
recognised as the championship. The tournament circuit was
distributed. Every region had its own anchor
event. There was no one weekend of the
year that the whole national community pointed at and said
this is where the best players meet.
That changed in the 20 tens as the Maha Shong revival moved
from a regional phenomenon into a national one.
Social media connected players across state lines who had
previously only known their local tables.
The card circulation numbers climbed.
The generation that had learned as children in the 1950s and 60s
was reaching retirement and finding that they had time,
money and appetite for destination events.
The demand was there. The supply caught up.
Several tournament organizers began to experiment with larger,
more ambitious formats, and the world championship concept
emerged from that competitive churn.
The first editions of what is now recognized as the Mahjong
World Championship were significantly smaller than the
event that now fills Las Vegas every October.
Early fields ran in the hundreds rather than the thousands.
The prize pools were modest. The infrastructure was
improvised. What the early championship had,
which every successful institution needs, was the right
mix of ambition and community consent.
Players showed up. They told other players to show
up. The field grew each year.
The format stabilised. The sponsors came in.
Within a handful of years, the event was what it is today,
which is the closest thing American mahsong has to a
national stage. The thing Prim finds most
interesting about this history, and the thing she would like you
to carry away from this section, is how recently it all
coalesced. The World Championship is
younger than most of the tables in your friends houses.
The scale of the modern mahsong calendar is a product of the
last 10 years, not the last 50. What this means practically is
that you are living in a period of unusual institutional
formation, and your participation is part of the
story of how these events become permanent.
Every tournament you register for, every weekend you travel,
for every photo you post with A tag that says you were, there is
a small piece of the infrastructure that makes the
next championship possible. The community is still building
the buildings. The wall is being read in real
time. Prim finds that thrilling, and
she wanted you to know it. You're welcome.
A small Sunday note for the mothers and the daughters and
the women in between. If you are giving a gift this
weekend, make it small and specific.
If you are teaching a new player, make it slow and
generous. If you are being taught, make it
patient and curious. If you are alone this Sunday,
sit down at your own table and play a hand because the women
before you are with you, whether you can see them or not.
The wall has been red, the table is open.
Prim would like you to be gentle with everyone, including
yourself, for one Sunday. The rest of the season can wait.
If you are new to these pages or you know a new player who would
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The gifts will land in your inbox along with next Thursday's
issue. Forward this one to the mother,
daughter, sister or friend who belongs at this table with you.
Prim's favorite chant for a bit of mash on fun.
Say it with me now. Don't tap it, racket.
Double stack it. Do it to it.
Don't construe it. We all know that Prim won't skew
it. The order of the tile.
Pursue it until next week. May your rack be blessed and
your Charleston ruthless. This has been the order of the
tile issue #8 the wall has been red.
Do forward this to your favorite 4th.
Everyone deserves a seat at this table, and everyone deserves to
be properly informed before they take it.
Until next Thursday, dear listener.
Prim as always.