Mahjong Snowsong
Tap a mahjong tile to drop it into your basket: two alike, one on the other, clear. It holds four.
How to play
- Tap a tile to let it go. With a clear way down it falls, slides down an igloo and lands in your basket.
- Two alike, one on the other in the basket, clear at once.
- A tile with no twin under it waits in the basket. Only the one on top can be paired, so free its twin before you add another.
- A tile falls only through a gap it fits. In a narrower one it is caught, and it falls on when a tile holding it is let go.
- A tall pile sinks as its lowest tiles go, and brings the tiles above it into view.
- The basket holds four. If a fourth tile lands without clearing, the level is laid out again as it was.
- An iced tile can’t be let go until a tile touching it has been; thick ice, with two rings, waits for two. Ice with a number melts once that many more tiles have been let go.
- Some tiles ride a ski lift, which moves along every time you let a tile go, the arms of a snowflake, which turns, a sled that slides to and fro, or ice elevators that go up and down. The gaps between them open and close as they move.
- Each flower and each season is a tile of its own: plum pairs only with plum, spring only with spring. A snowman pairs with any tile at all.
- A tile in the colours of the northern lights turns into another every time you let a tile go, and keeps the one it shows when it falls.
- Two keys stand beside the basket. Hint rings a tile worth letting go; Refresh deals the tiles still in the pile again. A level begins with none of either and gives two hints and one refresh at most: a hint at 10 pairs cleared, a second hint and the refresh at 20.
- Take every tile to clear the level.
What it trains
- No clock and no move limit: there is time to look at the gaps before each tap, so a level is worked out, not guessed.
- Each level can be cleared, and a full basket only puts the same tiles back for another go.
- Two hints and a refresh are earned in every level, for the moment nothing seems to fit.
- A tune the tiles play along to, with a switch for the music and another for the sound effects.
Play Mahjong Snowsong in your browser: a winter mahjong tile pair puzzle between two snow igloos. Tap a tile and it falls, through any gap wide enough for it, down an igloo’s snowy dome and into your basket on top of the one before it; in a gap too narrow it is caught until a tile holding it goes. Two alike, one on the other, clear, and the basket holds only four, so which tile you let go, and when, is the whole game. Every level can be cleared, a full basket lays the same pile out again, and your place is kept for next time.
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