Summer Triple Mahjong

Threes rather than pairs are the currency of Summer Triple Mahjong, and a tile only counts as available when its left or right side is clear. A piece with company on both sides is locked, whatever is drawn on it. Mahjong Tower Tips walks through the same rules from the start.

The clock decides the level. Every layout has to be emptied before the countdown finishes, and finishing one unlocks the next, so the summer run is a sequence of short timed problems rather than one long board. A hint is on hand for the moment nothing obvious is left, and there is a second route out of a lost level: watching a reward advert pauses the timer and lets the layout continue from where it stopped. Mahjong Halloween builds the layers into another arrangement.

Lof Games draws the board wide in a summer palette, and it responds to taps as well as clicks. For one more pile of the same kind, see the Miracle pile.

1. Find tiles with a clear side to the left or the right, since only those can be taken.
2. Collect three identical ones to remove the set from the layout.
3. Call a hint when the free tiles stop offering an obvious set.
4. Empty the layout before the countdown ends to unlock the next level.

• Free the edges first — a row in Summer Triple Mahjong only opens from its ends, so the outer tiles are the ones that keep sets available.
• Track the third copy — taking two of a motif and leaving the third buried is the quickest way to stall a timed layout.
• Spend the hint early — a hint that saves ten seconds in the opening minute is worth more than one used when the clock is already gone.
• Remember the pause — a reward advert stops the timer, which can rescue a layout that was one set from clearing.