Level 1 - Beginner

The beginner almost always have an advisor behind him and the slowest player in the group. They can be easily spotted with their confused facial expressions and exaggerated movements of mahjong tiles and the bored faces of other players.

Knowledge: They basically learned 3 rules to play Mahjong. 1) Everybody have 13 Mahjong tiles. 2) One needs 4 sets of three tiles and 1 set of two tiles to win. 3) Sets of three comes in ordered sequences or similar tiles. In additional, you know about the bamboo, "tong" and "wanzi" and could tell the difference (most of the time) between 1 bamboo tile and a "flower" tile

Skill: Basic tile stacking skill. Could be seen stacking tiles with two fingers like those doll machines. They play strictly by the rules only.

Playing Style: Rojak style. Anything will do for you as long as you can game

Self assessment: If you need constant reminders on where to draw your next tile, wished you have a hotline on 24/7 standby to answer your 101 queries on Mahjong, spent more than 4 hours on one round of mahjong, don't understand what is one round of mahjong, then you are very likely to be in this category.

Reaching this level: All you need is 15 minutes of time, a mahjong book or any mahjong guru (level 2 and above) to go through the rules with you and show you the tiles. In revised Bloom's Taxonomy, this is strictly a remembering level skill. A crash course before filling in the role as the 4th Mahjong player.