Marine Mahjong

The tile faces are the reason to be here: ships, sea animals and captain hats laid over a wash of blue, a nautical set that keeps the traditional layout underneath and repaints everything on top of it.

Nothing is timed, and that is more consequential than it sounds. Themed sets are usually harder to read than numbered suits, and without a clock you can take the extra second needed to decide whether two hulls are actually the same ship or merely the same colour. From the same years, there is also Elite.

Matching is the layered rule you would expect. A tile needs a clear top and one open side, pairs vanish together, and the board ends when the last of the fleet has gone. The palette works against you slightly here, since so much of the art is blue on blue. Directly alongside it sits the Onet grid.

This is a Flash game held open by the Ruffle emulator rather than by anything Adobe still ships. The ocean loop in the background is where you notice the join, as the audio can restart oddly or fall silent, tile edges look softer than they were, and full screen comes from your browser. A second stacked layout here is Halloween Cakes Mahjong.

1. Look across the fleet and separate the ships from the sea creatures before matching anything.
2. Take identical pairs that have an uncovered top and a free left or right side.
3. Peel the upper layers so the blue tiles buried underneath become visible.
4. Clear the whole board to finish, at whatever pace you like.

• Blue on blue is the trap — check silhouettes, not colours, when two tiles look alike.
• Hats are the easiest set — the captain hats are distinct and worth holding for the tight endgame.
• Top layers first — every ship removed from the peak uncovers two or three more.
• Use the untimed board — nothing here rewards a fast wrong click.
• Play full screen — the sea-creature tiles carry fine detail that vanishes in a small window.