Halloween Mahjong Connection

Halloween Mahjong Connection deals its tiles flat and asks you to link them: two pieces carrying the same pumpkin, bat or skull disappear when a clear path joins them, and that path may make no more than two right-angle turns. There is no stack to dig through — the whole board is visible from the first second. The full shelf is the Tower list.

What limits you is geometry and a clock. A crowded opening board leaves few legal lanes, so the early pairs are almost always around the edges; every removal cuts a new corridor into the middle. The timer on each level rewards players who work outside-in without pausing, and the levels keep stacking difficulty as you advance. Patterns Link sits on the same shelf of gentler boards.

The 2023 version from WillingGames.com runs at 900 by 600 with a haunting soundtrack, and it takes a mouse or a touchscreen. Hints will point out a legal pair and a shuffle redeals when none is left. Because the whole grid is on screen at once, playing in full screen genuinely changes how far ahead you can read the lanes. The same scanning across an open grid is what the Onet Fruit Classic grid asks for.

1. Look across the grid for two tiles with the same Halloween symbol.
2. Trace a route between the two Halloween tiles that turns no more than twice.
3. Confirm the route is clear of other tiles, then take the pair.
4. Open the edges first to cut lanes towards the centre.
5. Clear the Halloween grid before the level timer runs out.

• Edges before centre — the outer ring of a Halloween Mahjong Connection grid holds the free lanes.
• Two turns, no more — a route with three bends is rejected.
• Shuffle when nothing links — a redeal is faster than an exhaustive scan under a clock.
• Keep symmetry in mind — matching pumpkins are often mirrored across the board.
• Go full screen — reading long lanes across a 900 by 600 grid is much easier enlarged.