About Rainey Day Mahj
There's always room at the tableRainey Day Mahj started the way many good things do: around a table with friends. Weekly games with a group of neighbors, catching up with a friend in late-night two-player games after the kids’ bedtime, pulling out a set of travel tiles on the sidelines of a soccer game, cramming in a quick game with coworkers over lunch.
American mahjong is four people, a handful of tiles, and a couple of hours that somehow turn strangers into regulars and friends into something closer. I fell for that part as much as the game itself. I enjoy the strategy of the game, and I’m delighted by the beautiful tiles and mats. But the thing I love most is what happens around the table — connecting with others in a fun way and carving out time for ourselves.
So I built Rainey Day Mahj to bring more people to the table: lessons for people who've wanted to learn in a welcoming, low-pressure setting, gatherings for friends who want a reason to slow down and connect, and experiences for the companies and causes that know intentional connection through play drives real results.
Why mahjong?
There's a reason people call American mahjong the new golf. It's a few hours with a small group, with enough strategy to keep you engaged and enough downtime to actually talk. You can't look at your phone. You can't hide in the back. You're fully present with others, over a shared interest and a little friendly competition. In a world that has gotten very good at keeping us apart, focused, in-person connection like this is more rare than it should be.
We're all connecting in the margins now — coworkers between meetings, friends at a kids’ birthday party, a wave across the Target parking lot. A couple of hours at a table is the opposite of that.
Whether you’re learning your first hand or hosting your tenth get-together, the game is the reason. Connection is the point.
Who’s behind the table?
I’m Kathryn Rainey — a Dallas mom, longtime host of a standing weekly mahjong group, and someone who has spent a career thinking about how people connect, in work and in life.
Rainey Day Mahj is where that comes together: a way to build community around a game I love and give people a reason to connect.
The four ways we play.
Casual, low-pressure lessons that get you playing from day one.
Mahj for Friends
Private game nights, gatherings, and events, hosted wherever you gather.
Mahj for Business
A different kind of corporate connector: team-building and networking that actually brings people together.
Facilitated mahjong events that raise money for the causes you care about.