Traditional Mahjong game in which you play against 3 other players - sole against all computer players, or play with one to three other friends or network players via Game Center. Seats not filled by friends or network players are played by the computer. You may exchange group text messages and voice chats while in the multiplayer game.
Each player is dealt 13 tiles in a hand. The players take turns to draw a tile and discard one. The goal is to make 4 sets and 1 pair. Declare a win by tapping on a received tile or tapping/dragging on discarded tile that completes the hand of 14 tiles. The default mode will auto prompt you when a set or a winning hand can be formed with a tile drawn or discarded. Hands formed must be of some minimum point value (0-3) in order to win the round. A zero base point would allow chicken hand. The default is 0 base point, but can be customized.
If the base point is set to greater than zero, an attempt to steal a discard that does not produce the minimum points to win will be preempted by another player's claim for pung, for example. Falsely declaring a win when the hand does not meet the base point will be penalized. The claim on a discard to form a hand with enough points to win has priority over other attempts to form kong, punt, or chow.
Refer to wikipedia for a detailed description of the suite and scoring system of the game.
As few reviewers noted, this game offers realistic play. Drag a tile out to discard it. You will be prompted to make a choice to pung, declare a win, etc, or drag a tile discarded by another player to claim it. Tap any tile on your hand to declare a win if not using auto prompt mode. You can move and rearrange the tiles at will. To have them sorted automatically, do a horizontal swipe above your hand.
You can adjust the game speed and sound. You can also control that hands be of some minimum point value (0-3) in order to win the round. A zero base point would allow chicken hand. You can choose to play flower and season tiles.
Choose "Align discarded tiles" to line discarded tiles neatly, else discarded tiles are spin and placed randomly. You can change the the color of the background and tiles, or use a picture as the game background.
Multitask switching on supported iOS. Game is paused when you switch away from the App and automatically resumed when you return. Resume button is used to resume game saved if App is terminated (or for older iOS without multitask support).
The players bank will be shown at the start of the game. To see the bank during the game, tap on the player's name.
Your name in the game is taken from the Game Center alias and can be customized in the Game Center app. If you did not login to Game Center,the name is determined from the following sources (if used) in order: your name used for iCloud, other email, the name on your iPad/iPhone/iTouch. You may customize the names of the computer players.
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Mahjong! FAQ
Is Mahjong! free?
Yes, Mahjong! is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Mahjong! legit?
⚠️ The Mahjong! app has poor ratings and negative feedback. Users seem unsatisfied with its performance or features.
A fun and addictive game of the real four person Mahjong. With the new updates I don’t experience the bug that other reviewers reported. I like the new option of automatically claiming the tile when the tile forms a set or winning hand. I have changed the game to higher speed as now I won’t have to keep watching for all the tiles discarded.
Winning hand problem
Twice today I had a winning hand (with hand level set to zero base points) and when I tried to claim the hand, it said no winning hand found and then penalized me the maximum points. I had my husband who definitely knows how to play mahjong look and make sure I didn’t make a mistake. I have the two captured screens if the developer wants to see and correct the issue. Not much fun when it keeps doing this to me. I was able to win some other hands.
Good but the interface is not user friendly
Very difficult to interact with the GUI, sorting feature does not sort well based on the kinds, should have a feature to prompt the user when pop, kong...etc is allowed
Finally! Non-solitaire Mahjong
Thank you, thank you, thank you for finally creating the traditional game of Mahjong. I'm so tired of seeing that solitaire version. I used to play with ivory-bamboo tiles but it's hard to find someone to play with. Now I can play whenever I want.
Two suggestions:
It is necessary for strategic purposes to see all the discards.
It would be nice to be able to arrange the tiles on my hand.
Keep it up; it's a good start.
2011 update. EXCELLENT!
You fixed all but the view of discards and a pause. It's much better now.
2012 update. I like the new layout of the hand but two beefs remain. Sometimes capturing the discard freezes and the chance to pick up the discard times out before I can get it into my hand. Lost one game due to this!
Second beef: after a program upgrade, all personal settings are lost. I had sound turned off, loaded the game and startled a few people with the rustling of bricks. Also lost the yellow/brown colour of the brick backs.
What happened to the pause tap? It's useful to pause the game while adjusting the settings.
Good game. Overall I like it and it's the only app I found that wasn't solitaire in disguise.
2013 update: once again all my settings were lost. There's a wheel on the lower left corner that is inactive; it does nothing when tapped. I cannot get to my settings at all now. VERY IRRITATING!
What network?
Great concept, poorly written. No pause, no control over speed, poor network connection or none with friends. Flowers come and go at random. Who won the game is anybody's guess and the HAND has to be larger to make it a useful tool. Give me back my $1.99 until the game is fixed.
Saving game
Terrible how it crashes and it doesn't have a save point in this game. All the hard work points gone to waste. Game crashes every 5 games. Disappointed
Chicken hand bull
Super frustrating when you play a chicken hand and the game says its a loser. Week to week this is. Problem and totally ruins the game play if the game won't even recognize when you won. Figure this out people
Crashes constantly
The game play is good, but the button to take a tile should be larger... I find when i want to hit it i scramble to hit the tiny hand and miss is a lot, missing the tile i needed. Also seems to crash every second game. Gameplay is fun and rules are accurate, but needs polishing before it is worth $1.99
But mandatory make the hand button larger!!!!!!!
Weird
Sometimes I win, but it says I did not and then I lose a lot of money, could you fix this?
Also, you should have a choice of shanghai mahjong (13 tiles) and Hong Kong mahjong (16 tiles)
It is actually pretty good though
Ver.1.9 is nice, but needs bug fixes
Really close to a great game. Hope to see some bug fixes for next revision.
1. Could not "goong" 4 tiles at initial start of hand.
2. Landscape mode: player's tiles blink out, right computer tiles shift left. (tilt IPad and things return to normal)
3. Computer discards could be at same position to allow for easy "pong". (Many times, lost good opportunity because could not grab tile fast enough at different positions. (But I also need to play at a fast pace so can't slow overall game.))
4. Nice "round" and "seat" indicators. One time it disappeared, had to reinstall.
5. Please somehow avoid overlapping discarded tiles when not using "align discarded tiles".
6. If possible, have multiple player scores. So I can allow others to play without affecting my score.
7. If possible, make arranging tiles more precise. When moving tile left, it positions it one tile too far left.
Good luck. Definitely recommending to my friends. (No comments on scoring. Whole other topic.)
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