Madcap Mahjong

Fizzy Cool pitches Madcap Mahjong as crazy and fast-paced, and the scoring backs the pitch up. Match every tile, clear the board, and the figure that matters at the end is the time it took you. The full Solitaire list is where the rest of these boards live.

There is a second way to take the same layout. Playing casually drops the race entirely and lets you work at your own pace, so the difference between two sessions is not the tiles in front of you but whether the clock is an opponent or a bystander. The Xmas Deluxe board builds the layers into another arrangement.

Chasing a best time changes how you open. Rather than surveying the whole stack you take the first legal pair you see and keep moving, and the risk that creates is arriving at the last four tiles with two of them stacked on top of each other. Madcap Mahjong is drawn at 800 by 600 and takes a mouse or a tap. Mahjong Deluxe piles the tiles into a different silhouette.

1. Decide whether this run is a timed attempt or a casual one.
2. Match identical free tiles to take them off the board.
3. Keep moving without pausing if you are racing your previous time.
4. Clear every tile to finish the board and post the result.

• Learn the board slowly first — a casual run teaches you the layout that a timed run then exploits.
• Take the obvious pair — hunting for the optimal match is what costs a Madcap Mahjong record run its seconds.
• Glance at the base — even at speed, the bottom of the stack decides whether the last four tiles cooperate.
• Reset early — a botched opening on a timed attempt is worth restarting rather than salvaging.