Xmas Presents Mahjong

Xmas Presents Mahjong does not clear pairs. Clicking a tile sends it down to the collection spots along the bottom of the screen, and only when three of the same face are sitting there together do they disappear. The Solitaire shelf holds the rest of the group.

That single change makes the row of slots the real board. Every tile you send down without a plan occupies a spot, and boards of this kind usually give you only a handful of them, so the pile above matters less than the strip below. Three of a kind is also a harder thing to see than a pair, since a face with two copies showing is worth nothing until the third turns up. The Valentines Day board piles the tiles into a different silhouette.

The dressing is festive, and the feed tags back that up: christmas, classic, collect, colorful and logic. bestphysics draws the game at 1280 by 720, a wide frame that keeps the collection strip and the pile above it visible at the same time, and the release is marked mobile-ready. A second stacked layout here is the Pet Tile Master board.

1. Click a tile on the pile to send it to the collection spots at the bottom.
2. Send a second and a third copy of the same face down after it.
3. Watch the three clear together and free up their places in the strip.
4. Keep spare places open so the next face has somewhere to go.
5. Empty the pile to finish.

• Count to three before clicking — sending a face down when only two copies are visible parks it in the strip indefinitely.
• Mind the collection row — the strip along the bottom is the constraint in Xmas Presents Mahjong, not the size of the pile above it.
• Complete before you start — finishing a set already half-collected returns places, while opening a new one spends them.
• Check the faces twice — a wrong pick costs a place in the strip rather than just a click, which is a much dearer mistake.