Mahjong Solitaire

What is Mahjong Solitaire?

Mahjong Solitaire is a single-player tile-matching puzzle built from the traditional Mahjong tile set. Tiles are laid out in layered shapes — turtles, castles, dragons — and your job is to remove every tile by clearing matching pairs. Unlike competitive four-player Mahjong, there are no discards and no opponents: the only thing you play against is the layout itself.

Rules in 30 seconds

1. A tile is free when no tile rests on top of it and at least one side (left or right) is open.
2. Click two identical free tiles — they vanish. Jokers match any Joker; Flowers match Flowers; Seasons match Seasons.
3. Clear all tiles to win. No moves left? Undo, or start a fresh solvable deal.

Strategy tips

• Peel layers, don't cherry-pick pairs. Freeing a buried pair is usually worth more than clearing any visible pair.
• Keep both ends of long rows working. A row blocked on both sides is dead until you open an end.
• Watch the top-layer stacks. Everything under them is frozen — clear raised tiles early.
• Turn on Solvable mode and every deal is guaranteed to have at least one winning path — stuck means you made a choice, not that fate did.

Free, instant, no account

JongGames runs the full 152-tile American Mahjong deck in your browser — desktop, phone or tablet. Choose a board from the board library, race the Daily Challenge, or draw your own board and share the link. More detail in the How to Play & FAQ guide.