Click or tap two matching free tiles, or drag one onto its match. A tile is free when nothing is on top of it and its left or right side is open. Keys: arrows move, Enter picks, H hint, Z undo, Y redo, S shuffle, P pause, N new game.
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Clear the board by taking tiles away in matching pairs. You can only take a tile that is free: nothing lies on top of it, even partly, and it has an open side on the left or the right. Tiles above and beside are what hold the others in. Pick one free tile, then its match, and both go.
Identical tiles match: the same number in the same suit (dots, bamboo or characters), the same wind or the same dragon. There are four of each. The flowers and the seasons are one of a kind, so any flower matches any other flower, and any season matches any season. With "Show numbers" on, every suited tile has its number in the corner and the winds show E, S, W or N, so you don't need to read the Chinese characters.
Yes. Every deal here is built backwards from a winning line of play, so there is always a way through. Taking the wrong pair can still leave you stuck. Then you can undo, or shuffle: the shuffle puts the remaining tiles in new places so the board can still be cleared, if any arrangement of those places can be. Hints show a pair you can take now, not necessarily the best one.
Turtle is the classic 144-tile layout with a single tile on top and three end tiles that block the middle rows. The others are our own: Pyramid, Fortress, Bridge, Cross, Stairs, and Quick for a short game.
Each layout has one deal per day, the same for everyone. It changes at midnight on your own clock. Random deals have a number, so you can replay one or send it to a friend.
No. This is the one-player tile-matching game, often just called mahjong online. The four-player game, with draws, discards and scoring, isn't here.
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