Golden Autumn Mahjong

Sliding, not lifting, is what Golden Autumn Mahjong asks for. Instead of picking a pair off the top of a stack, you push tiles sideways across the board until two identical ones collide, at which point both disappear. The layout is flat, and the geometry of that collision is the puzzle.

It changes the planning entirely. A tile travels until something stops it, so the piece you want to hit has to share a row or a column with a clear path between the two. Move the wrong tile and you have just built a wall in front of the match you were setting up. The same heading covers the Cards Connect board as well.

Autumn artwork carries the faces, leaves and acorns in harvest colours, and the levels follow one after another with a clock on each. The pressure is real, because a collision that fails to connect costs both the move and the seconds spent making it. Mahjong Connect 2 shares this board’s place in the catalogue.

The HTML5 build plays on a desktop machine or a touch screen, and full screen helps more than usual here, since judging a sliding path across the whole board is difficult when the board is small. A neighbour from the same shelf is Connect Cute Zoo.

1. Find two identical autumn tiles that share a row or a column.
2. Check that nothing stands between them, since a tile slides only until it meets an obstacle.
3. Push one of the pair towards the other so the two collide and vanish.
4. Clear the board before the level clock runs out to reach the next stage.

• Clear the outer tiles first — Golden Autumn Mahjong slides pieces towards the edge, and a crowded border stops moves dead.
• Trace the path before you push — the tile stops at the first obstacle, not at the tile you were aiming for.
• Beware of self-made walls — one piece parked in the middle can block three future collisions.
• Keep the pace up — every misfire costs the position and the time together.
• Switch to full screen — long sliding lanes are hard to judge in a small window.