Coffee in one hand, a full rack in front of you, and the whole table pretending not to notice that you are one tile from Mahjong. Every player has sat there, sipping and waiting. This funny mahjong mug is for the one who has been one away more times than she can count.
JUST NEED ONE runs across the mug in heavy, friendly capitals. Below it sits a flat tile rack holding a full hand of big dot and bamboo tiles, with one slot left empty and traced in a dashed outline. The gap sits in the middle of the hand rather than at the end, so it reads as the one tile still missing, and the empty space does all the talking. Flat and bold, with thick outlines and no lettering on the tiles at all.
The design wraps both sides, so it reads whichever way you pick it up.
Fill it for the host who keeps the coffee coming, hand one to every player at the holiday gift exchange, or wrap one for the mother or grandmother who taught you the game.
Refill. Then pick from the wall.
