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"Overall, this is the best digital version of mahjong that we've encountered, and we recommend it."
Review from the popular website www.download.com
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The Mahjong game for Mac and Windows that you download from this website is the full game. Try it as much as you want before deciding if our work deserves consideration.
If you want to know everything: we both have a daily job and we are developing this game on our sparse time until it can be a full time job for us. Revenues from donation and ads 2011: 1700€/$2200, 2012 until late september: 1900€/$2450. To be able to publish the next version of the game on all mobile plateforms (licences and hardware), we will have to get out 12000€/$15,500 of our pocket. So if you help us: thanks :-)
Players supporting us receive for their donation a code (valid for life and for all the following versions on Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android etc) allowing them to:
- immediately access all the levels
- choose their favorite theme to play the levels
- quit the game without having an Internet browser showing this website
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From 16 euros, you also get the Mahjong In Poculis compact disc.
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Mahjong In Poculis is a free Mahjong solitaire game available for Mac and Windows 7, Vista and XP. Please click on the button corresponding to your computer to start downloading the game.
Windows 7 or 8: update your graphic drivers if the game is slow or doesn't start.
If download is too slow, you can use the following links to use servers from download.com : here to download the Mahjong game for Windows and here do download the Mahjong game for Mac.
Game rules
Game rules
Mahjong In Poculis can satisfy both people who want to relax themself and the ones who like to rack their brains. A few simple rules are enough to enjoy the game. For those who wish to go further, it is also possible to set themselves some hard challenges.
I. Starting the game, choosing an ambience
II. The basic rules, playing in a relax way
3. The moves permitted and the ones forbidden
III. Spicing the game, playing in a challenging way
2. Following up my progression
3. Sharing my victories, joining the players' big family
I. Starting the game, choosing an ambience
When launching the game, the welcome window pops up. On this screen, you can select a theme. Only the first level of each theme can be launched at the beginning. It is pointed out with the sign 
. By succeeding the level, you will unlock the following one and so on. The levels that are locked are pointed out with the sign 
. Click on a level ready to be lauched to start the game.
The welcome window
II. The basic rules, playing in a relax way
1 - The aim of the game
The aim of the game is to remove all the tiles from the board.
Sequences of a game until the final screen
2 - The way to remove tiles
The tiles are removed in pairs, by selecting identical tiles.
Example of identical tiles, highlighted by pairs in green, blue, anise and pink
Note: In the above example, the tiles have different background colors to better identify their height (pink, grren, purple and blue). Only take the symbol into account, regardless of the background color. This explains why the tiles surrounded by green can be combined, despite their difference in color.
3 - The moves permitted and the ones forbidden
To select a tile, it is necessary that
- the left side or right side is free and
- there is no tile above it.
In the example below, the tiles that are highlighted in green can be selected since they match with the previously listed criterions. The other tiles cannot be removed at this moment of the game.
In green, the tiles that can be removed at the beginning of the game for this level
Notes:
- if you are unable to find a possible association, click on the button "Advice".
- in "Child" mode, all moves are permitted.
4 - The exceptions
There is an exception for associations: one can associated tiles that are not identical if they belong to the Flowers family or to the Seasons family. The letter written in the upper right corner of a tile tells what family it belongs to. For example, the Flowers are represented by F, the Seasons by S, the Winds by W, Bamboo by B, ...
The green circles show the letters identifying the tiles' families
5 - The loosing cases
The levels are designed so that a victory is always possible. However, it is also possible that, at one point of the game, the board is blocked: among the tiles that can be selected, none can be associated.
This situation is managed differently according to the playing mode selected among "Child", "Standard" and "Expert".
In the "Expert" mode, a blocked board means the end of the game. In the "Child" and the "Standard" modes, a second chance is offered to you: the remaining tiles are shuffled so that a victory is still possible.
You now know the essential rules to start playing. As you will succeed the levels of a theme, you will win different medals. Your first challenge is to win each gold medal of all themes!
If you need to refresh your memory about those basic rules during a game, an assistant can be opened by clicking on the button 
in the upper right corner of the board.
III. Spicing the game, playing in a challenging way
You are now mastering the game rules and you wish to spice game ? Here is what you need to know:
1 - Maximising my score
Whenever two tiles disappear, you mark 1 point. To score more points, you must create Four-Of-A-Kinds or Series. You gain more points if the series are made up of tiles from the same family than series made up of tiles from different families.
Below is an example of a Four-Of-A-Kind (on the left) and Serie made up of odd tiles (on the right):
The following array sums up the won points for each possible Serie:
Here is the list of families for all themes:
To see your score and Series during the game, click on the button 
on the upper right corner of the board.
2 - Following up my progression
The result of each game is stored for each player. A dedicated window, that you can open from the welcome window, enables you to follow up your progression and, in particular, to know your highest score for each level. Click on the button "Manage players" in the welcome window to get access to your statistics.
3 - Sharing my victories, joining the players' big family
If you wish to share your victories with the other players of Mahjong In Poculis (living in many different countries!), you can publish your scores on the Internet. To do so, click on the button "Publish your scores on Internet" available from the window showing your statistics. The internationnal ranking is showed on the following web page: Players ranking.
Enjoy the game!
Mahjong In Poculis is a free Mahjong game for Mac and Windows
The popular www.download.com website did an interesting review of Mahjong In Poculis. Let's introduce the game description by using their own words: "Overall, this is the best digital version of mahjong that we've encountered, and we recommend it."
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In this Mahjong game, which is by the way an excellent way to challenge your memory, you'll have to select pairs of tiles having identical symbols to make them disappear. The main difficulty comes from the classical Mahjong Solitaire rule: only layout's border tiles are candidates for selection. The game is won when there is no tile left on the board. The next layout starts automatically until you finish all the layouts from the current theme. The main key words are: discipline, strategy and of course a little bit of luck. A 5 step in-game tutorial quickly reminds you the game rules. You can activate it by clicking the question mark at the upper right screen corner.
The game comes with 6 fun themes having for each one: 50 layouts and 5 medals to win. In expert mode, you'll need around 150 hours of game play to overcome the 300 layouts. Each theme (Christmas, Halloween, Asian, Easter, Wonderland and Future) has its own layouts, graphics, musics and sound effects.
There are 3 playing modes:
- Child: you can select all the identical tiles whether they are on layout borders or not.
- Standard: only border tiles can be selected. Once you have no more possibility for association, tiles are shuffled to give you a second chance.
- Expert: the same as Standard mode without a second chance. You need extreme concentration to be able to overcome all the layouts.
Whatever your chosen playing mode, you can challenge your best time or your best score. For scores, you can make Combos, i.e: a specific sequence of pairs giving you more points. Best scores come from this kind of sequence: a pair of 1 followed with a pair of 2, a pair of 3 and so on until a pair of 9. Such a sequence gives you more than 177 000 points if the tiles come from the same family!
When you exit the game, a dialog box shows your global statistics. You can then publish your scores on the Mahjong In Poculis' website, without any registration step.
Mahjong In Poculis in few words
Feature Highlights:
- Child, Standard and Expert Mode
- Christmas, Halloween, Asian, Easter, Wonderland and Future themes
- 300 levels
- Built-in 5 step, in-game Tutorial
- Post Scores and photo on this website
Language support:
- English, French, Spanish, Italian and German (EN, FR, SP, IT, DE)
Minimum Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/2000
- Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
- 53 MB Hard Drive space for Mac and 126 MB Hard Drive space for Windows
Pricing and Availability:
- This product for Mac OS X and Windows is free without any limitations. You are simply encouraged to buy a copy if you feel that the general quality lives up to your expectations.
Who speak about Mahjong In Poculis ?
Mahjong In Poculis has been referenced on the main websites dedicated to downloading. The most famous of them, Download.com, offers you a lot of players' reviews. To see a video of this Mahjong game you can visit Tucows.com. Finally Softonic.com has reviews written in foreign languages. You can also try some not free Mahjong games.