Many of us think that the game of mahjong is a gambling game played by 4 people. Apparently, just like with cards, there is a solitaire version of it, too. The Facebook game developed by Café.com, Mahjong Temple 2 (http://apps.facebook.com/temple_of_mahjong/), is a solitaire version of mahjong.
The goal of this Facebook mahjong game is to reveal the entire beautiful background by clearing all the tiles on the board as quickly as possible. This can be done by clicking two free identical tiles. A tile is free if one of its vertical sides is not next to another tile.
A player who uses real tiles on a real table or board will discover that there are times that the board cannot be cleared because there are no free identical tiles. After all the hard work of clearing more than half the board, being stuck can be very frustrating. Thankfully, with Mahjong Temple 2, this annoyance does not happen because this game has 4 boosts that can be used to solve the puzzle:
- Rearrange – the tiles can be shuffled to prevent being stuck. This can be done twice.
- Pocket – a free tile can be placed in the pocket area at the right side of the screen to free tiles under or next to it. The pocketed tile can be paired with another tile anytime
- Hint – highlights 2 identical tiles that can be matched
With beautiful the graphics and relaxing Chinese music, the game has attracted over 430 thousand monthly active users. So what are you waiting for, relax and enjoy with the Mahjong Temple 2!
Today, the Mahjong Club announced its purchase of the Facebook game, World Mahjong Tour (WMT) (www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=7450887610). WMT currently has over 11 thousand monthly active users. According to Mahjong Club CEO, Adriaan Brink, the acquisition of WMT is part of their strategy to become the primary multiplayer Mahjong site on the web.
Mahjong is a traditional Chinese game, mainly played by four players as a gambling game in Asia. It takes skill and luck to win in this game, just like in poker. However, instead of using cards, Chinese Mahjong uses 136 tiles. Furthermore, unlike cards with 4 suits (hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs), Mahjong has only three suits: bamboos, characters, and circles. These are all numbered 1 to 9 and each tile has three identical tiles included in the Mahjong set. In addition, there are 12 dragon tiles and 16 wind tiles.
On the other hand, the European set has 144 tiles. This includes the tiles from the Chinese set as well as four flower and four season tiles.
Each hand either has 13 or 16 tiles, depending on the variation. The objective of the game is to have in hand 4 or 5 melds. A meld can be a set of three or four identical tiles, or three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
In the Mahjong Club (http://www.mahjongclub.com), a multiplayer Mahjong site, users can play for free or with real money.
The more you play, the more your skills will improve. So play more and win more!
Mahjongg Dimensions, a 3D Flash-based game, is launching on Facebook, first quarter of this year. It is a relaxing game that can be played online without downloading anything. The goal of the game is to remove all the tiles (the cubes) stacked on the board at the shortest time possible. To do that click tiles of the same kind. The board can be rotated to the left or right by clicking the arrows at the left and right side of the screen. A level may take less than a minute to complete.
Mahjongg Dimensions is just the first of 7 games to be launched by Arkadium in the social networking site.
Arkadium will most likely partner with a premium Facebook game developer to launch their new games. The company will let the public know who their partner will be before the end of the quarter. This partner will be a great help in marketing the Arkadium games.
Arkadium was founded by the husband-and-wife team, Kenny Rosenblatt and Jessica Rovello in 2001. They specialize in “advergaming” or games that have ads. Their Flash-based games are excellent promotional tools for various products and this is how their company makes profits. Included in their portfolio are over 200 Flash games licensed to other brands.
