Easter Mahjong

Easter Mahjong is a connect board wearing a spring holiday: painted eggs, rabbits and pastel decoration sit on the tiles, and pairs are joined rather than lifted off a stack. The page on onet boards takes the same rules apart step by step.

The link rule is the strict one. Two tiles showing the same item clear when the path between them turns at right angles no more than twice, so the useful question on a crowded board is never which tiles match but which matching tiles can actually see each other. WillingGames.com built the levels to keep climbing — the board is asking how far up them you can get. The same scanning across an open grid is what the Faces grid asks for.

Two comforts set this one apart from stricter connect boards: the hints are unlimited, so a stuck layout is never a dead end, and the background can be swapped for another scene when the pastel one stops helping you see the tiles. There is no strict time limit either. Full screen suits the 900 by 600 frame, where the smaller egg patterns differ only by their painted stripes. The Mother’s Day Float Connect board puts the same rule on a board of a different size.

1. Find two tiles showing the same Easter item — the same egg, the same rabbit.
2. Trace the path between them: no more than two right-angle turns, and no standing tile in the way.
3. Select the pair to clear it and open the routes behind it.
4. Empty the board to move up to the next level.

• Hints are unlimited in Easter Mahjong, so call one the moment a layout looks locked.
• Change the background if the pastel tiles start blending into the scene behind them.
• Clear the outer eggs early, since the edge routes stay legal while the middle is still packed.
• Compare the stripes — several egg tiles share a colour and differ only in their painted pattern.
• Set it to full screen before a long climb, because the 900 by 600 frame is small for the fiddliest egg designs.