Mahjong Burger

The tiles here are plates of food rather than suits, and the setting is a cafe working its way through a rush. Every face on the board is a dish, which is the only real departure from a standard stacked layout.

Each level is a board plus a clock. Clear the pairs before the timer empties and the next level opens; run the clock out and the level stands where it is. Three difficulty settings decide how much is on the counter when you begin. From the same years, there is also the Marine pile.

Matching is ordinary pair work, so what actually decides a run is your reading speed. The dishes are drawn small and busy, and most of the seconds lost go on checking two similar plates twice rather than on any hard decision. A second stacked layout here is the Solitaire pile.

Mahjong Burger is a Flash game, played on this page through the Ruffle emulator. The countdown is where you notice that: the timer bar tends to jump rather than slide, the kitchen effects sometimes arrive after the tiles have already cleared, and full screen belongs to the browser now instead of the in-game button. Sheep Sheep sits beside this one among the layered boards.

1. Choose one of the three difficulty settings on the opening screen.
2. Look over the counter for two identical dishes, each uncovered and open at one side.
3. Click the pair to clear it and expose whatever was sitting underneath.
4. Empty the board before the timer runs out to move on to the next level.

• Open on the easiest setting — the three levels differ in how much food is on the board, and the timer does not grow to match.
• Clear the top plates first — each dish lifted from above usually frees two more beneath it.
• Prefer a face you can see four times — taking the last two of a kind can strand a pair for the rest of the level.
• Keep half an eye on the bar — the level ends with the clock, not when you run out of ideas.
• Go full screen — the food art is fiddly at window size and every misread costs seconds.