Mahjong Chain

Mahjong Chain is a connecting game rather than a stacking one: pairs of identical tiles are joined by a line that runs straight or takes up to two corners, and if the route needs a third corner the pair simply is not available yet. The word chain is doing honest work in the title, because the board is solved as a series of linked openings, not as a stack peeled from the top.

A time limit sits over the layout, so the practical question on every board is which pair to take rather than whether a pair exists. Taking the reachable one now is usually stronger than searching for the elegant one, because each removal changes what the next line can travel through. The same scanning across an open grid is what the Dream Pet Link grid asks for.

The support tools are a hint and a shuffle. The hint will find a connectable pair, at the cost of score, so it works best as a rescue rather than a routine. The shuffle exists for the position every connect layout eventually reaches, where legal tiles remain but nothing among them can be joined. The connect-tips guide goes through it slowly for a first-time player.

Full screen matters for the same reason it matters in any two-corner game: you are judging routes across the width of the board, and a small frame turns that judgement into a guess. Enlarged, the corners in a candidate line are visible before you commit. The layout plays on desktop and on mobile, where two taps complete a connection.

Clearing every pair finishes the board, and the runs that get there are the ones that keep the middle of the layout breathing from the very first match. The Remix board replaces the tile art and leaves the path rule alone.

1. Find two identical tiles and look at the space between them.
2. Confirm they can be linked by a straight line or one that turns at most twice, with no tile blocking the route.
3. Click both to remove the pair and widen the gap for the next connection.
4. Keep clearing pairs before the time limit expires.
5. Call a shuffle when the remaining tiles cannot be linked at all, and a hint only if the board has beaten you.

• Keep the centre open — a gap in the middle of a Mahjong Chain layout is what lets later lines turn twice and still connect.
• Take the available pair — the clock rewards momentum more than it rewards the perfect sequence.
• Hints cost score — every one you use lowers the result, so treat them as an emergency measure.
• Shuffle only on a locked board — reshuffling while connections still exist throws away the structure you built.
• Use full screen — corner-counting across a wide board is unreliable at small size.