Mahjong Ready

Summer is the whole look of this one: beach boards, bright tile faces and a set that reads warm rather than traditional. The suits underneath the holiday paint are the standard ones, so anyone who has taken a stacked layout apart can read this table at a glance.

There is no strict limit on how long you take, but a bonus timer runs alongside the board and pays for speed. That leaves two honest ways to play it: work the layout down at leisure, or push the pace for a score worth putting next to a friend’s. The same free-tile rule governs Mahjong Dogs.

A hint and a shuffle are both provided. The hint marks a pair that is live right now; the shuffle redeals the pieces still standing, which is the way out when the visible faces stop matching anything. 3D Mahjong was filed here for the same reason.

The build comes from CHORSE GAMES LIMITED and is drawn for a tall portrait screen, so it takes a tap as readily as a click. On a desktop monitor that shape leaves the board sitting in a narrow column, and full screen is worth using for that reason alone. The Horoscope board is kept online here for the same reason.

1. Read the top layer of the summer board before making the first pair.
2. Select two identical tiles that are uncovered and free on the left or the right.
3. Call a hint if the live pairs are not obvious, and a shuffle when none exists at all.
4. Keep the bonus timer in view, since a quicker clearance means a larger score.
5. Take the layout down to its last two tiles to win.

• Trade slowly for score — nothing forces a hurry, but the bonus timer is the only thing separating two clean wins.
• Shuffle rather than stall — a redeal of what is left beats hunting for a pair that is not on the table.
• Strip the peak — beach layouts pile pieces high in the middle, and those upper tiles block everything else.
• Use full screen on a desktop — the board is drawn tall for a phone and looks cramped in a browser window.
• Save one hint — the closing handful of tiles is where a hint actually buys you something.