Mahjong China

Mahjong China is the plain version of the game: the traditional Chinese tile set, a stacked layout, and pairs of identical faces removed until nothing is left. No theme is layered over it and no mechanic is invented for it — the interest is in reading the stack. The same group of boards includes the Butterfly Kyodai HD grid.

What shapes a session is the allowance. Ten minutes are granted per level, and that is the whole pressure of the board: a layout that would be quiet without a clock becomes a matter of finding the next legal pair quickly and committing to it. Full screen is the practical setting for that, since the traditional faces differ by small marks and a hesitant glance costs seconds. For one more pile of the same kind, see the Hotel board.

The build comes from the Flash era, which is worth knowing before you start: it was made for the desktop browsers of that period and may not work on every device. Where it does start, Mahjong China is the tile set that the rest of the catalogue is themed away from. The same discipline about buried tiles applies in the Sushi board.

1. Start the level and take in how the Chinese tile stack is arranged.
2. Find two identical faces that are free to lift, and remove them.
3. Keep pairing until the layout is gone.
4. Complete the board inside the ten-minute limit to advance.

• Read the stack before the first click — the ten-minute limit in Mahjong China punishes a board you have not mapped.
• Take the top layer down first, since every tile up there is holding two below it.
• Prefer pairs that unlock — clearing a pair that opens nothing spends both tiles and the time they cost.
• Play it on a desktop machine, which is what this Flash-era build was made for.