Mahjong! App Reviews

What a waste of $1.99

I give this app one star because it looks like mah jong. But thats as far as it goes. Its like the game developer just stopped there and was like "ahh f it, Ill just release it." You cant chow and it doesnt let you win unless you draw the winning tile. I could go on and on but that would just waste more time and Ive already wasted enough time with this app.

I play the American version so I know the scoring of the hand but on this when you have 4 chows and a pair you dont necessarily win. I would suggest a brief description on hands for scoring points. I did check out Wikipedia but it has different versions of scoring. I would like to know specifically how to gain points if it is not just getting the chows and pair. A certain order?

The program is faulty- every time you win, it would be recorded as a loss with you having to pay all the players instead!,,

They broke the game again! The major bug wherein every time you win, the system still considers your hand a loss, has been fixed in earlier versions. However, with this latest version, they screwed up the code again! This is supposed to be a decent mahjong game, but the developers did not do adequate testing before rolling it out as evidenced by the major bugs that surfaced again.

This version is terrible, refuses to let you steal discards and many times when you have a perfectly legitimate winning hand it re records it as a loss. Not much fun when that happens

I am a beginner Mahjong player and am totally enjoying this game, actually having a hard time putting it down! The reviews with complaints about having winning hands but not given credit is not true of this app. By going to settings and setting "base points to win" to 0 that will not happen. Until I better understand scoring of the various hands I will leave it set there. One review indicates that you cant steal but you can. The rule is that you can steal to form pongs from any player but you can only steal from the player on your left to form chows, except when declaring a win. My one suggestion for the developers is to give better instructions for using the app to help avoid the frustrations shown by some of the other reviewers. It is a complicated game and players really should do some searching online to better understand the game. Great app for learning the basics of the game.

Thanks for the insight you are absolutely right about the settings!!!!

JaneePetes comment is really helpful. I am a seasoned MJ player and after anout an hours play, I find this game to be very good. I only give this a 4 star becuase I had played for a shrot time. I have some suggestions for the developer: 1. As others have suggested, provide a basic description on how to play the game for novice players. 2. In the tools section, provide description for how the various combination of a winning hand is counted when calculating the points awarded. There are many forms of MJ and each has a slightly differnt way of counting giving (or not giving) points to certain combination. Knwoing the rules will change ones playing strategy. 3. When I drew winning card, no prompt came up to ask me whether I want to declare a win or not. I had to tap the hand symbol on the lower right had corner to get the prompt to come up. Seems like this might confuse firt time users. BTW: I had set help to ON in the tools section.

This is the only app Ive found that has real Mahjong play rather than solitaire tile matching. The play is realistic and I like the speed adjustment and other settings. However, the game seems to lock up regularly - often during the set up for a new game. To fix it, I must delete the game and reload it from iTunes. VERY inconvenient. It also seems to have problems with the score keeping and tracking of money for each player. I hope they are able to fix the bugs, because otherwise the game is fun.

I enjoyed this game initially, and thought the speed was a bit slow so I turned it up. After 2 days of playing, the speed suddenly went crazyily fast even though I turned the speed back to the slowest setting! It is so fast that before my brain registers what was thrown out, it has passed 3 players! A few times, the system didnt register that I grapped the tile for a winning hand and I lost my winning opportunity. It will be nice to have a undo, intercept command on an automatic pong that shouldnt happen. Please fix the speed control !!!!

Being a Mah Jongg player of many years, I like the realistic aspect of this game but when I have a winning hand, the game does not always recognize it which is frustrating. I realize the rules are quite different from the actual game of Mah Jongg but I find the rules given for this game are sketchy at best and wonder if I am not understanding the rules ie:can you take a tile that is discarded from any of the other players or only certain ones? I hope they get the bugs out because I really love playing this game and would give it 5 stars easily if the game always recognized winning hands when I get one!

Definitely a fun & addicting game. Most closely resembles the real Mahjong game. Just wish it werent so unstable when using pause function. Especially bad when pausing on my own turn. The app always freezes and then jumps into a super fast mode that cant be stopped. Also would be really fun if we could actually play against other people on line like words with friends.

Liked playing this game as its very close to the actual mahjong game. Please fix the bugs. Declaring a pong when u have 4 of the same tiles causes the game to go into super fast mode.

theres gotta be a way to pull the tile from the computer if you have a higher hand to play. there have been so many times the computer will pick up the tile I need to complete my hand.. theyll play a pong or chow but I cant declare a win with it because its automatically taken.

I bought this yesterday. Cant figure it out. It plays my hand for me. Gives me a tile if I take more than 5 seconds to think. What a shame! Does anyone know of a good, easy to use mahjong app to play against other players?

I dont like the game There are too many kinks to work out. I cant play the game with the pad horizontally. The game gets stuck when it mixes the card, especially when I continue the game at a later time. Also frustrating is when I need a discard to win and someone needs a pong, I cant get it. It makes the game not too much fun to play...I missed two times to retrieve a discarded tile and it wouldnt let me take it. I am sorry I paid to get this apt. I am extremely dissatisfied.

--Update--- So I deleted this game and re-installed. Now it has declared that my name is "Bill", and I still dont know how it happened or how to change it. Anyone know? --------------------- I like this game, but I liked it better when it had the double tap to pause feature. I hope they put it back. For some reason it has a misspelling of my name, and I cant figure out how to fix it. They simply added an "s" to the end of my name, and Im pretty sure I didnt do it - fat fingers and all...

Game cannot be paused by double tapping. When all tiles are used in a round, game freezes and one must begin with brand new game thus losing all ones winnings in current game. Scoring not accurate.

Im just learning how to play and this really helps me! But it is frustrating when it just closes mid-game. It seems to happen mostly when we run out of tiles. Please fix! Also, it does need a Pause. My other wish would be a better help file as to how it is scoring.But I love everything else about it! The best app Ive found!