Mahjong 13 tiles Reviews – Page 8
4/5 rating based on 150 reviews. Read all reviews for Mahjong 13 tiles for iPhone.
Mahjong 13 tiles is free iOS app published by Zhengzhou Anlansiqin Automobile Service Co., Ltd.
Perfect... except game is fixed to make you win
mrmattyg123
My only complaint is that the game is too easy and the algorithm seems (definitely is) fixed to make you win way more than chance would have it. When playing mahjong with my friends I win 20-30% of the time, but this game has me winning 60-70% of the time. After the initial feeling of “dang, I’m awesome!” wears off, it makes it feel like a waste of time to play this game because you’re being given tiles. I love that you can increase the speed of this game so there is basically a 1 or 2 second interval between each time you play a tile. This great feature makes playing other online versions of mahjong feel unbearably slow.
Pretty good
Greg Agni
Some rambling thoughts: I am much more familiar with riichi than Chinese Competition rules so I got this app to learn more. The game play is pretty good, though the display is a bit cramped on my ipad mini. The tiles are a bit hard to read — the lines on the bamboo and dots are very light and it took some time to get used to the cursive style of the characters. The fine lines are especially annoying when I’m trying to scan through the discards. There is a drop down menu of analytical information about the current hand that seems like it would be more useful than it actually is. In particular there is a menu that I think is supposed to help you learn the scoring combinations (there are a LOT of them) and decide how to develop your hand. It shows a list of scoring possibilities and shows you the tiles you have and which ones you still need. However it does not show how many points that combination is worth, (in official competitions you must have eight points to go out, so this is important) it can be hard to figure out how many tiles you need since every possible completion is shown and not all patterns require 14 tiles. Also there isn’t (as far as I can tell) a summary of the number of points you have already made. One feature I would like to see in all computer mahjong games is a totally manual mode in which the buttons for “pung,” “chow,” “kong,” and so on are always visible weather they are legal or not and play does not stop for you to decide whether or call a meld or announce a win. This would force the player to decide in advance what tiles to call and know what tiles complete the hand without help from the computer.