Colorado News
Published November 9, 2026 8:55am
When is mahjong more than a game of tiles? When it’s at the Woodland Park library , that’s when.
Following a trend, a group of Teller County residents gather weekly in the library’s conference room to learn how to play or practice the game. Their teacher, Michelle Reinheimer, is a certified OMM Mahji Mentor who is driven by the call of the tiles. The mentor certification is a thing these days.
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Once a month, Reinheimer drives from her home in Dallas, Texas, to Teller County to teach mahjong. She has a second home in Florissant.
But there is a reason for all that driving.
“I wanted to play mahjong up here, so I started a class,” Reinheimer said. “Dallas is a mahjong mecca.”
Reinheimer, 58, took up the game after her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.…
