Mahjong‪!‬ 4+

POK

Designed for iPad

    • $1.99

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Description

Traditional Mahjong game in which you play against 3 other players - sole against all computer players, or play with one to three other friends or network players via Game Center. Seats not filled by friends or network players are played by the computer. You may exchange group text messages and voice chats while in the multiplayer game.

Each player is dealt 13 tiles in a hand. The players take turns to draw a tile and discard one. The goal is to make 4 sets and 1 pair. Declare a win by tapping on a received tile or tapping/dragging on discarded tile that completes the hand of 14 tiles. The default mode will auto prompt you when a set or a winning hand can be formed with a tile drawn or discarded. Hands formed must be of some minimum point value (0-3) in order to win the round. A zero base point would allow chicken hand. The default is 0 base point, but can be customized.

If the base point is set to greater than zero, an attempt to steal a discard that does not produce the minimum points to win will be preempted by another player's claim for pung, for example. Falsely declaring a win when the hand does not meet the base point will be penalized. The claim on a discard to form a hand with enough points to win has priority over other attempts to form kong, punt, or chow.

Refer to wikipedia for a detailed description of the suite and scoring system of the game.

As few reviewers noted, this game offers realistic play. Drag a tile out to discard it. You will be prompted to make a choice to pung, declare a win, etc, or drag a tile discarded by another player to claim it. Tap any tile on your hand to declare a win if not using auto prompt mode. You can move and rearrange the tiles at will. To have them sorted automatically, do a horizontal swipe above your hand.

You can adjust the game speed and sound. You can also control that hands be of some minimum point value (0-3) in order to win the round. A zero base point would allow chicken hand. You can choose to play flower and season tiles.

Choose "Align discarded tiles" to line discarded tiles neatly, else discarded tiles are spin and placed randomly. You can change the the color of the background and tiles, or use a picture as the game background.

Multitask switching on supported iOS. Game is paused when you switch away from the App and automatically resumed when you return. Resume button is used to resume game saved if App is terminated (or for older iOS without multitask support).

The players bank will be shown at the start of the game. To see the bank during the game, tap on the player's name.

Your name in the game is taken from the Game Center alias and can be customized in the Game Center app. If you did not login to Game Center,the name is determined from the following sources (if used) in order: your name used for iCloud, other email, the name on your iPad/iPhone/iTouch. You may customize the names of the computer players.

What’s New

Version 3.08

Supports new devices
Addresses issue with demo

Ratings and Reviews

2.5 out of 5
31 Ratings

31 Ratings

Yung Mahj ,

Why do you do this?!

I love Mahjong! Now, especially the Hong Kong (Chinese) version. I loved this app because it actually lets me play as it is played at a table game.

My only beef with this app is that it cuts itself off and doesn't save the game as it was being played. The "Resume Solo Game" function doesn't work AT ALL and I end up having to close all the way out of the app to play again (which resets the game). And usually, the same thing happens again several times before I just give up playing altogether.

Fix that bug and this app is PERFECT! Especially for avid Mahj players like me.

Developer Response ,

Sorry for the late reply, please let me know if this is still an issue.

kpopfan1516 ,

Tiles need to be consistent and organized

The algorithms seem to be good, but user interface needs improvement! The tiles thrown out to table need to be at a consistent place in the center - right now they are being thrown at all angles all over the center table, and I have to keep looking for its landing place so I can grab it. Hence I missed the chances of grabbing the tile for Pong MANY times. The thrown-out tile needs to stay on table LONGER (or letting user pause) so user can THINK before acting on the tile. This speed needs to be separate from other tile movements that are not relevant to user.

Developer Response ,

Sorry for the late reply, the titles are now better aligned when they are thrown out (there's a "align discarded tiles" setting that controls this). The speed control is now also separate.

slohmama ,

Needs some improvements

Need an easier way to claim the other player's tiles. Need a button to put my tiles in order.

The app also crashed on my first solo game. It's great that it saved the game state, but when I resumed it crashed again in the same spot, so that game was ruined. Then I played my second game, and some timing with the pause button confused it and it got stuck (never continued no matter how many times I hit the pause/u pause button).

I wish I could turn off the numbers on the wan's.

Developer Response ,

Sorry for the late reply, the tiles are now automatically sorted. Please let me know if you're still experiencing the other issue. Note: you can configure "auto prompt" in the settings which will prompt you when there's a tile of interest.

App Privacy

The developer, POK, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Supports

  • Game Center

    Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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