Mahjong Pyramids

Sandstone, scarabs and hieroglyph tiles set Mahjong Pyramids in an Egyptian frame, and every level is played against a clock.

MarketJS built it on the easy-to-start, hard-to-master line. Matching identical tiles is obvious within seconds, so the difficulty sits in how quickly you can read a layout rather than in the rule itself. Complete a level before the timer expires and the next arrangement opens, with the pyramid theme carried through the tile faces and the sand-coloured backdrop behind them. A second stacked layout here is the Fortuna 2 pile.

The power-ups are the part worth learning. An auto-solve bonus clears a pair for you, which is a genuine rescue on a level where the clock is nearly out and the tiles that remain are buried. They arrive as rewards for progress rather than purchases. 3D Mahjong shares this board’s place in the catalogue.

This is a 2016 build at 640 by 480, played with the mouse, and it is one of the boards where full screen matters: the hieroglyph tiles carry fine detail that a small window flattens into similar-looking smudges. The Treasure Island pile sits beside this one among the layered boards.

1. Study the Egyptian layout before the clock starts biting.
2. Match two identical tiles to remove them.
3. Keep clearing while the timer still has room.
4. Trigger an auto-solve bonus when the remaining pairs are out of reach.
5. Move on to the next pyramid layout once the board is empty.

• Read the layout first — seconds spent mapping the duplicated hieroglyphs in Mahjong Pyramids come back several times over.
• Bank the auto-solve — it is worth far more on a nearly finished level than on a board that is still wide open.
• Top layers open the rest — buried tiles stay locked until whatever sits above them has gone.
• Do not chase symmetry — matching pairs from opposite sides looks tidy but leaves the middle of the pyramid stacked.
• Play full screen — at 640 by 480 the scarab and ankh tiles are close cousins, and size is what separates them.