Mah jongg, the popular tile-based game that came to the U.S. from China in the Roaring Twenties, has experienced a resurgence ...

And the participants are not actors, but Long Islanders of all ages and backgrounds, finding their way to — or back to — one of the most iconic parlor games of the last century: mah-jongg.

Stay-at-home lifestyles have further eroded the rough image of mah-jongg as a game played all night by crude characters in smoke-filled gambling dens. Families and friends of all ages are now ...