Mahjong Crimes – Puzzle Story

Mahjong Crimes wraps a tile board in an Agatha Christie plot. Every match you make is framed as evidence gathered, and clearing a layout advances a case rather than simply emptying a grid, with Hercule Poirot aboard the Orient Express and the puzzle standing in for how he gets his clues. The tower-tips guide goes through it slowly for a first-time player.

Azerion Casual Games has built the campaign out past a hundred levels, with boosters to spend on the arrangements that resist a clean solve and tile sets to collect along the way. Awards come from closing cases, so progression is narrative rather than a pure score chase, and a level that stops you is meant to be beaten with a power-up rather than replayed indefinitely. Another layout to unstack is the Flower Country pile.

The board itself sits in a square 800 by 600 frame and supports touch as well as the mouse, which suits a game you are likely to return to across many short sessions rather than finish in one. A second stacked layout here is the Four Rivers pile.

1. Open a case and read what the board is standing in for.
2. Match identical tiles to remove them and gather clues.
3. Spend a booster when an arrangement locks up rather than restarting.
4. Clear the layout to close the level and move the investigation on.
5. Collect tile sets and awards as the cases accumulate.

• Save boosters for locked boards — Mahjong Crimes runs past a hundred levels, and the arrangements that genuinely need help come late.
• Follow the case, not the score — progress here is measured in solved crimes and collected tile sets rather than a points total.
• Clear the top layer first — freeing the upper tiles is what makes the buried evidence selectable underneath.
• Short sessions suit it — the campaign is cut into discrete cases, so a level or two at a time loses nothing.