Mahjong Solitaire: game rules
Mahjong Solitaire
🀄 Goal: Clear your layered board by clicking two identical FREE tiles. A tile is free when nothing rests on it and at least one long side is open. Dragons, flowers and seasons score 10 points per pair, every other tile scores 1.
🎴 How it works: In multiplayer everyone gets their own board with an identical layout — everyone plays at once, nobody waits for a turn. Whoever clears their board first wins the race. A deadlock with no reshuffles left knocks you out and you spectate the rest.
🧰 Aids:
- Hint (solo only): marks a free pair for you — 3 per game, free of charge. Undo (solo only) puts the last pair back and counts as help.
- Shuffle: usable anytime. The budget is 2 reshuffles per round played (so 6 with 3 rounds, 10 with 5 — spend them freely across the game), but at most 3 within a single round. Once you can't reshuffle, a deadlock ends the round for you.
- Five board layouts as a lobby setting: turtle (classic), pyramid (steeper), dragon (long), fortress (wall ring with corner towers), spider (body with long legs).
🏆 Winner: Whoever clears their board first wins the race. Anyone knocked out is ranked by pairs cleared. Solo you win by clearing the board. Solo the clock runs along; without hint, shuffle and undo your account remembers the best time per layout.
Settings & scoring
⚙ Settings: The host picks the layout, the number of rounds (1, 3 or 5) and the time limit per round.
💡 Good to know: When the round's time limit runs out, every open board ends with its score. If someone leaves the race, their board ends with the score reached and the others play on; over several rounds the total counts. There is no undo in a race. Solo, you can give up a board with no way out.
🪑 With two players you face each other at a wooden table in the lobby: you always at the bottom, your opponent at the top, the game already laid out in the middle. An empty chair reads “Seat free” – you copy the invite link at the top next to the code.