Easter Mahjong Deluxe

Painted eggs, chicks and spring flowers sit on tiles that animate gently as the board settles. Lof Games added that flourish to its 2020 Easter build, and it is the only ornament in an otherwise strict layout, where a pair lifts when one side, left or right, has no neighbour blocking it. From the same group, there is also the Xmas Float Connect 2023 grid.

Scoring is what separates this version from a plain seasonal reskin. The clock is not only a limit: the seconds still on it when the last egg goes count towards the total, and so does every hint left unused. Two players finishing the same level can end with very different numbers, and the whole gap lies in how much help they took and how fast they read the layout. The same section of the catalogue also holds the Tiles of the Simpsons layout.

Levels are timed individually and a shuffle is on hand for the layouts that close up. The tile art is busy, with several eggs sharing a palette of pastel stripes, which is the practical case for full screen over a small window. Mouse on a desktop or taps on a phone both work. The Candy Connection layout is catalogued beside this board.

1. Look for two identical festive tiles with a clear left or right side.
2. Select the pair to lift it away and free whatever it was blocking.
3. Clear the whole level before its clock stops.
4. Keep hints in reserve where you can, because every one you do not use is added to the final score.
5. Shuffle only when the layout has no legal pair remaining.

• Speed is score — leftover seconds are banked as a bonus, so hesitating over a match costs points as well as time.
• Unspent hints are worth points — treat the button as a last resort rather than a search tool.
• Clear the ends of rows — the blocked middle only opens once the tiles capping a row are gone.
• Group the pastels — striped eggs of similar colour are the usual cause of a wasted click.
• Play full screen — the animated tiles are small, and the movement is easier to ignore at size.