Mahjong Connect
Mahjong Connect is an exciting puzzle game that challenges your skills and strategy. It is a variation of the traditional Chinese game of Mahjong, but with a twist. Instead of matching tiles to clear the board, you need to connect tiles with a path that has no more than two turns to remove them from the board.
How to play
The basic idea of mahjong connect is very simple - connect stones with identical images to remove them from the board. However, for the stones to be removed they must be connected by no more than 3 straight lines. Every time you link stones together an indicator line will appear showing how many steps there were between the stones.
Let’s explore some examples of how the stones can be connected.
Adjacent stones
You can remove stones that are direct neighbors.
One line
You can remove stones that are connected by a single straight line and there are no other stones in between.
Two lines
Here the stones are connected with two lines. You can also think about it as how many times the line turns 90 degrees. In this case, the line turns one time. So if you are going to think with “turns”, the indicator line must not make more than 2 turns. If you think with “lines”, the indicator line must not consist of more than 3 straight lines.
Three lines
Stones connected with 3 lines can be removed as well. Note that the length of the lines doesn’t matter, it’s possible to match stones located on the opposite sides of the board.
Tools
To make it more fun, the game provides 3 types of tools that will help you with your games:
Bomb
3 random pairs of mahjong stones will be bombed and removed from the game board.
Shuffle
Getting lost in the current layout of the board and can’t find any good move to make? Use the shuffle button
to mix the stones. Also, the board gets shuffled automatically when there are no more removable stone pairs.
Hint
The hint button will choose the best possible stone pair for removal and highlight it.
Game Modes
Mahjong Connect offers two game modes: Normal and Relax. Normal mode consists of 5 levels with a 7-minute time limit per level. As you progress through each level, the game gets a little bit harder. In Relax mode, there is no time limit, and you can play at your own pace. You can also use the helper tools as much as you want.
Scoring
Every time you remove a pair of stones, you earn 10 points. You can increase your score by removing pairs of stones quickly, which increases your multiplier. The game also records your statistics, such as your win-to-lose ratio, biggest score, and multiplier. You can view your stats by clicking on the leaderboard located in the top left corner of the main menu.