About Mahjong
Mahjong solitaire, on a warden's counting table. The stones are wardstones recovered from the Sundering and laid out to be read: thirty-six carved wards, four of each, stacked five deep. Take two that carry the same ward and they lift off together. Clear the table and the filing is done.
A stone can only be taken when nothing rests on it and one of its long sides is clear, so the game is a question of order, not of finding. Each ward has four copies, which means every pair is a choice between two pairings — and the wrong one buries the copy that was holding your way through.
Every deal here can be cleared, and that is not a promise, it is how the deal is made. The table is built backwards from a finish and then replayed through the rules to prove it empties, before you ever see it. That is why there is no shuffle button: a shuffle is only ever an apology for a board that should not have been dealt. Undo is free and unlimited instead.
Thirty tables, from a thirty-six-stone cairn to the hundred-and-forty-four-stone Shell, each with a best time to beat and a difficulty somebody actually measured. There is a new table every day, and a fresh deal on any layout whenever you want one.
How to play
- Take two stones carrying the same ward. Pick one and every stone that would match it glows.
- A stone can be taken when nothing is on top of it and its left or right side is clear — covered stones are dimmed.
- Run out of moves? Undo. It is free, it is unlimited, and the way through is still there.
Controls
| Tap or click a stone | Pick it up |
|---|---|
| Tap its match | Take the pair |
| Drag | Move the table when it is zoomed in |
| Pinch / wheel | Zoom |
| Double tap | Fit the table back to the screen |
| Arrow keys | Walk the stones you can take |
| Enter | Pick up or take |
| U / H / F | Undo, hint, fit |
A best time is kept for each table and for each day's table. Asking for a hint takes that run off the clock; undo does not. Progress and settings are saved in this browser.
