Mahjong Connect: Spooky

Two tiles of the same type join in Mahjong Connect: Spooky only when the line drawn between them turns twice or fewer. That single restriction is what separates a connecting board from a stacked one, and it is why the middle of a full grid is effectively frozen until the edges have thinned out. The full shelf is the Seasonal shelf.

Clearing a board sends you to the next, and the sequence is time sensitive, which makes each level a race against the countdown rather than a puzzle you can leave half-solved and return to. davidgilbert built this one without a touch layer, so it is a desktop board in practice: the pointer precision it expects is not there on a phone. The Animals Connection board is the nearest flat-board neighbour of this one here.

Reading a legal path is the skill worth practising. Two spooky tiles sitting side by side need no bend at all, while a pair in opposite corners of a crowded grid will usually want three, and the third is one too many. The Connect Deluxe board keeps the path rule and changes the pictures.

1. Find two identical spooky tiles somewhere on the grid.
2. Trace the route between them in your head and count the corners.
3. Click both if the line bends twice or fewer, and the pair is removed.
4. Clear the whole grid before the level time runs down to advance.

• Count corners, not distance — a pair across the grid in Mahjong Connect: Spooky is legal if the route bends twice, however far apart the tiles look.
• Open the middle early — landlocked tiles have no legal route at all until the pieces around them go.
• Take what you see — the level is timed, so a legal pair in front of you beats a tidier one you are still hunting for.
• Play it at a desk — the board has no touch layer, and mouse pointing is what the grid was built around.