Mahjong! 4+
POK
Designed for iPad
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- £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
Such a shame
This App would be brilliant if the creators could fix the little problems. Being able to play with people you know and speak to them is fantastic; however there are many glitches such as the game freezing and mixed messages as to who has actually won! Playing alongside another person, my screen stated there were 16 tiles left and the person I was playing with was told there were 6 left?!? Really disappointing as this would be great without the hitches!!!
KTong
Dreadful, faulty app! Each time I start a new solo game the player on the right always starts first as East, also the same player- dice should be thrown to see who starts first. Why am I made to begin each new game as North? The game freezes so often especially on stalemate the full four winds cannot be played. The 'hand' is so small and goes off so quickly ( even at a slow rate of play) I miss a decisive action too often. If more than one game was unfinished, on resuming, the tiles of another unfinished game appear beneath the tiles in play, confusing! Very often a card accidentally moved forward is stuck in play and nothing can be done to return it to its place. I cannot discontinue or end an unsatisfactory game, I can only start a new game but then the game I wish to delete goes to unfinished file so in the end I have plenty of unwanted games waiting to be resumed. When I touch the app to start the last unfinished game appears, but the options 'play new game' etc stay on the table and cannot be switched off until I touch resume, but then another unfinished game appears! What's brilliant about that?
And I had to pay this this rubbish? Please iron out all these faults and give us a good update.
omissions
Nice little App for MahJong fans but some strange omissions -
no pause button for those moments when you are interrupted by the wife
no running score sheet: you have no idea where you are in the game or how well you are doing between rounds
autoarrange: your hand is all jumbled up unless you swipe to arrange it (which does not always work). I can't see why you would not want you hand arranged from the get-go?
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Information
- Provider
- Pok Wong
- Size
- 5.3 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2009-2021 Pok Wong
- Price
- £1.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.