Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the game of Mah Jongg has exploded as people picked up new hobbies to keep themselves entertained during lockdown. That momentum has stayed in Steamboat, with new groups being formed each year. But Mah Jongg wasn’t always the biggest craze in town. When the “mother of Steamboat Mah Jongg” Susan Handloff started the first club over 20 years ago, there was no one she could play with. “It was kind of a weak start. You…