Mahjong Connect 2

Agame states the job in Mahjong Connect 2 in a single line: get rid of all the matching pairs. There is no story wrapped around it and no scoring gimmick attached, which makes it one of the plainer entries on this hub. The survey of the branches sets out the same mechanics on one page.

Connect boards work differently from stacked ones. The tiles lie flat and visible, so nothing is concealed and there is never a question about what remains — only about whether two identical faces can still be joined, and that question gets easier as the field empties out. The Ancient Rome board is filed under the same heading here.

This build sits in an 800 by 500 window, shallower than the 800 by 600 standard used by most boards here, so the field reads as a wide band rather than a block and pairs tend to sit further apart horizontally than vertically. Its feed tags — classic, matching, relax, single-player — place it at the unhurried end of the connect shelf. Mouse or tap, either works. The same section of the catalogue also holds Mahjong Holiday.

1. Look across the wide field for two tiles with the same face.
2. Select one, then the other, to get rid of the pair.
3. Take the crowded middle of the band apart before the edges.
4. Continue until no matching pairs are left on the board.

• Read sideways — on an 800 by 500 field the twin you want is more often left or right than above or below.
• Thin the centre — tiles in the middle of a wide band are the hardest to reach once the flanks fill in.
• Clear whole rows — an emptied row opens routes across the entire width of the field.
• Take your time — the tags mark Mahjong Connect 2 as a relaxed single-player board rather than a race.