Normally, I wouldn’t touch a game with “spooky” in its title with a long, pointy stick, but Mahjong Mystery: Escape the Spooky Mansion is a breath of fresh air. Score: 🀄🀄🀄 Mahjong Mystery: Escape the Spooky Mansion ( Android) There are plenty of better, more generous apps. While other apps offer a wide range of tile styles and backgrounds for free, you have to rack up hundreds of thousands of coins to buy them in Mahjong Gold.įor example, a set of blingy gold tiles costs 200,000 coins, which equates to nearly £15 in the real world – or a lot of play time.
So why have I only given the game three Red Dragons? Well, the major downside is its stinginess. It’s not going to put you in a state of advanced Zen bliss, but it’ll be quite relaxing on the 7.35am train to Charing Cross. Mahjong Gold also has a decent soundtrack of plinky-plonky piano, birdsong, running water and Brian Eno-style eerie synths. This is the highest-rated Mahjong solitaire game on the Google Play Store and it’s easy to see why: there are 500 unique boards and seven tilesets, as well as the all-important, and addictive, ability to earn coins to unlock new content. Score: 🀄 Mahjong Gold ( Android and iOS) If you like frozen screens and throwing your phone across the room, this is the app for you. I must admit that my judgement of the game was clouded by the fact that it broke after one level. Moreover, the constant swiping back and forth is like the digital version of pushing peas around a plate. The interface itself is clean and the boards rotate smoothly, but there are no entertaining frills such as different tile designs, backgrounds, music – or fun. Yes, the novelty factor convinces you that it makes a nice change for around ten minutes, but then the limitations of Stack Mahjong 3D quickly become clear.
Like most blockbuster films, there’s not much point in Mahjong being in 3D. But what’s the best free Mahjong app?įor my sins, I downloaded five Mahjong solitaire apps and, because we’re very scientific here at The Big Tech Question, awarded each a score out of five Red Dragon (🀄) tiles.
The simple but addictive game on your device is actually Mahjong solitaire and it’s a perfect way of zoning-out on a long train journey. They share the same tiles, but that’s about it. Whatever its roots, Mahjong is a complex, nuanced game that can take years to master… and bears absolutely no resemblance to the Mahjong app installed on your iPad. There’s a lot of debate surrounding the origins of Mahjong (麻將): certain historians argue that the tile-based game evolved during the priceless-vase-producing Ming dynasty of 1368 to 1644, but most experts agree that the modern version was perfected in the late nineteenth century.
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