Introduction
Mahjong (sometimes spelled Mahjongg) in its original form was created in China during the late 1800's, but has through the years gained world-wide popularity. Our version is the solitaire variant of Mahjong, which is a more recent invention. The object of the game is to match and remove pairs of tiles until there are none left on the board.
Gameplay
There are a total of 144 tiles on the board. They are split into the following groups:
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Bamboo
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Characters
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Dots
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Dragons
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Winds
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Flowers
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Seasons
Each type of tile appears four times in the game, with the exception of seasons and flowers, which only appear once.
The gameplay is quite simple, though solving the game can be surprisingly tricky. Gameplay consists of finding a pair of tiles that match each other and that are open to be removed from the board. A tile can be removed if both the following conditions apply:
It has an empty space on either side of the tile
It doesn't have another tile covering it.
A pair of tiles matches if they are in the same group and have the same type within that group. For example: Bamboo-5 can only match another Bamboo-5 tile. Bamboo-1 can not match Bamboo-2. However, the flower and season tiles are an exception to this rule. Any flower tile can match with another flower. Similarly, any season tile can match with another season tile.
Winning
The game is won when you have removed all the tiles.
And that's it!
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