Dog Mahjong

Dog Mahjong runs on connect rules rather than the stacked pyramid: tiles sit flat, and a pair disappears when the line joining them bends twice or fewer at a right angle.

Every face is a dog breed. That is a harder ask than it sounds, since a handful of the illustrated breeds differ mainly in ear shape and coat colour, and at speed they blur together. Learning the six or seven you meet most often is worth more than any strategy advice. Connect Remastered replaces the tile art and leaves the path rule alone.

Levels are timed, and emptying the whole grid is what moves you to the next one. A hint is available when the board stops offering routes, and the sound effects confirm a valid pair without you having to look at the score. For the rule in plain words, see solitaire against connect.

This is a Flash-era build made for desktop and laptop screens. Full screen is the practical setting, since tracing a two-turn path across a wide grid depends on seeing all of it at once. The same two-bend path rule drives the Virus Connection board.

1. Spot two tiles showing the same dog breed.
2. Check that a clear path joins them with no more than two right-angle turns.
3. Click the pair to remove it from the grid.
4. Empty the whole grid before the level timer runs out.

• Clear the outer ring first — edge tiles in Dog Mahjong have the most unobstructed routes available.
• Learn the breeds — several of the illustrated dogs differ only in ear and coat, and a misread costs a click.
• Trace before you click — a path that looks direct often needs a third bend, which the rules will not allow.
• Hold the hint for a locked grid — spending it on a board you have simply not read wastes it.
• Play full screen — long connections across a wide grid are hard to judge in a small embedded frame.