Solo Mahjong at Kiwi Online Casino

2007 February 07, Elyshia P.

Mahjong is a skillful Chinese game that is enormously popular through the Eastern world. It is certainly known in the Western world but its unique game play and use of Chinese tiles makes the game very foreign to most Westerners. However Mahjong has a mysterious appeal which makes it attractive for new players to learn, and now they have the opportunity to learn and play online thanks to Kiwi Casino and Fast Win Casino.

You have a few different game and rule variations when playing online Mahjong.

Solo Mahjong is a single player version of the classic game, and provides the option to play according to either World Mahjong Federation (WMF) or Japanese (Tenwa) rules. Solo Mahjong requires no prior knowledge of how to play Mahjong but you'll learn some of the basic concepts of this exciting game as you play. You start out with a ready hand (one tile away from a win) and must find the right tile in the wall of 24 face-down tiles to complete it. Simply click on a tile to select it. You have three chances per round to find the right tile.

In standard Mahjong, discarded tiles can be used to complete a hand. In Solo Mahjong, this is not the case. Discarded tiles do not participate in the game in any way.

If the picked tile completed your hand, the win screen will open. There you can see all the sets in your hand, and how many points each set is worth. The more points you have, the bigger your win. In the win screen, you can click on Continue to review the end state of the round, or you can click on the New Game button to immediately start the next round.

To the right of the wall is the Hand Information area that displays the random actions or bonuses associated with the current game round. The hand information parameters are representing a scenario that would happen at the end of a true Mahjong game. The final score of the winning hand is based also on the hand information parameters:

• Action is a Mahjong hand that is applied as a bonus. If you win, this hand's points are added to your total.
• Reach specifies whether the Reach or Early Reach hand applies.
• Honor Streak specifies whether the Honor Streak bonus can occur in this hand.
• The Seat Wind and Quarter Wind indicators. A set of wind tiles matching either the seat or quarter wind makes a special hand and increases your score.
• Under the Japanese rules there is the Dora tile. Each tile in your hand matching the Dora gives you an extra game point.

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