Choosing obvious pairs every time, such as those from the top levels, will often lose the game by leaving essential tiles under cover.ģ. You should open up new tiles with every pair they eliminate. Although each tile layout requires a unique approach, the general strategy is to keep removing matching tiles in such a way that each removal would open up more possibilities for future tile matching.Ģ. If you clear the board, you move to the next level, which will have a different layout.ġ. When you have no more pairs and no more shuffles, the game is over.
Each time you start a game, you are granted 5 shuffles. When no pairs are left, you may use a shuffle. Any Season or Flower combination counts as a pair because there is only one of each tile. When matching pairs, Seasons and Flowers are the only suits you do not need to match exactly. These suits are Characters, Bamboos, Circles, Dragons, Winds, Seasons, and Flowers as shown in the table below: Like cards, the tiles have standard suits. There are a total of 72 pairs in a game of MahJong Solitaire. A maximum of 5 reshuffles per game is allowed.Ī player can only remove the tiles one pair at a time. Reshuffle button can be used when no moves are available. Matching tile pairs can be removed by clicking on each tile in the pair.
Players can remove only those matching pairs of tiles where each tile has at least one side (left or right) free and no other tiles placed on top. The object of the game is to clear the playing area of tiles by matching pairs of tiles. The game is finished when either the layout is empty, or there are no exposed pairs remaining. The aim of the game is to clear the layout by pairing up all the tiles. Exposed pairs of identical tiles (Flower and Seasons tiles in the same group being considered identical) are removed from the layout one at a time, gradually exposing the lower layers to play.
A tile that can be moved left or right without disturbing other tiles is said to be exposed. The 144 tiles are arranged in special layouts with their faces upwards. Mahjong solitaire or MahJongg solitaire also known as Shanghai solitaire, single-player mahjong or one-player mahjong, is a solitaire matching game that uses a set of Mahjong tiles.