Xmas Mahjong

The question Xmas Mahjong puts to you is how far you can get. No level count is advertised, and the board simply keeps serving grids of Christmas tiles to connect and clear. The rules behind it are laid out in the beginner rules page.

Two buttons sit alongside it, and they change how a stalled grid feels. Hint points out a pair when the board stops giving them up, and Shuffle rearranges the tiles when nothing legal is left, which is the difference between a run ending and a run continuing. Neither is buried in a menu, so the honest question is how often you want to reach for them, and a ladder with no ceiling makes an unassisted climb its own kind of scoring. Next to it in the same group is the Amazing Bubble Connect board.

WillingGames.com draws it at 1280 by 720, and taps work as well as clicks. A neighbour from the same shelf is the Tile Connect – Pair Matching layout.

1. Connect two matching Christmas tiles to take them off the grid.
2. Clear the whole board to move up to the next level.
3. Press Hint when you cannot find a legal pair.
4. Press Shuffle when the grid has stalled, then keep climbing to see which level stops you.

• Save the Shuffle — in Xmas Mahjong it rescues a stalled grid, and reaching for it early wastes the one tool that ends a deadlock.
• Hint as a tiebreak — use it to confirm a pair you already suspect rather than to search the board for you.
• Track your best level — with no stated ceiling, the level you reached last time is the only target the ladder gives you.
• Clear crowded corners first — a corner cluster on a 1280 by 720 grid hides more pairs than the open middle does.