Equipments needed for playing Mahjong Solitaire:

mahjongMahjong Solitaire is an ancient Chinese game. It is a simple and an addictive tile matching game. These games are both relaxing and stressful. The tiles have different images such as flowers, numbers and seasons. The tiles are arranged based on the pattern, size and height. The main goal of this game is to remove all the tiles from the board and matching pairs from the given layout. The valid pair contains two tiles such as free and identical. If you are removing a pair of tiles, you should satisfy some conditions such as the tiles which are identical like 6 and 6 or East and East and the seasons and flowers are matched with each other but these are not identical like the winter tile matched with spring tile.

The mahjong solitaire consists of 144 tiles or bones and it includes colors, honors and bonuses. The colors include three categories such as characters, bamboos and circles. These are known as dots or balls with given numbers from 1 to 9. Each category has for bonus. The bonus numbered from 1 to 9 is called sets and the bonus numbered from 2 to 8 is called the ordinary ones. The honors include two categories such as the winds and the dragons. The winds are classified as West, East, North and South and the dragons are classified as Red, Green and White.

The bonuses contain two categories such as seasons and flowers. In this bonus, each category has one bone numbered from 1 to 4. The player is able to get points for each identical pair from the table. The game starts with 72 pairs on the table. In this game, the score depends on the type of tile and number of tiles. For example, the player removes the wind from the table and he gets 288 points like 4 multiplied by 72.

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