Mahjong Deluxe 2

Every level of Mahjong Deluxe 2 starts the same way. A board arrives already covered in tiles, and the job is to associate them in pairs and make them disappear until nothing is left on it. The plain answer for new players walks through the same rules from the start.

Playtouch frames this as a test of patience and thinking capacity rather than of reflex, and the framing is accurate. Associating the right two tiles is the easy half; doing it in an order that does not bury the pieces you still need is where a level is actually won or lost, and where an impatient player leaves themselves one unmatched pair short. From the same group, there is also the Popit Vs Spinner layout.

The pitch is rediscovery — a great classic brought back rather than reinvented — so nothing here demands a rulebook or an explanation of what the tiles mean. Levels are discrete and emptied one at a time, the board occupies 800 by 600, and a mouse or a fingertip does the selecting. The Royal layout keeps company with this board in the catalogue.

1. Look over the covered board and find two tiles that associate.
2. Select both to make them disappear from the level.
3. Take pairs in an order that frees the tiles underneath them.
4. Empty the board completely to finish the level and move on.

• Slow down — Playtouch pitches patience as the skill, and a rushed opening buries the pieces you will need at the end.
• Uncover before you clear — a pair that exposes two new tiles is worth more than one that only tidies the surface.
• Leave a spare — where four identical faces sit on the board, avoid spending both easy copies at once.
• Finish what you start — Mahjong Deluxe 2 counts a level as done only when the board is completely empty.