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Hello! I have been playing this game for a few years now. I hadn’t known what to say until I just happened to see negative reviews, and felt obligated to respond. 1. This game is an amazing workout for your brain IF you don’t rely on the shuffles and boosts. If you’re lazy and want simple wins, then yep, you’re going to run out of freebies pretty quick. 2. For those with an inkling, those shuffles and boosts should be hoarded for when you just can’t beat a level, NOT when you want a quick, easy win. (Matter of fact, don’t play this game if that’s what you’re about. You will quickly become frustrated.) 3. Mah Jong is a puzzle. It’s not supposed to be easy. Developers, this game is my bedtime ritual. Thank you for so many contented hours, not to mention the brain exercise.

I completely love this game. It was hard for me to find a Mahjong that wasn’t “only Mahjong” or that didn’t loose the track of Mahjong because there was a lot on the game (I downloaded one that was mahjong/finding things/overloaded story) I HAVE TO SAY This one is just perfect! It has characteristics (like daily goals, daily spin) that are normal on other games but not completely overwhelming and also keeps a clean track of levels while achieving game goals, like visiting the different travel destinations. I love the interface. I love the music doesn’t distract me. I love that they do not bang you with ads unless you loose a level or need a special boost (like Shuffle boost, or double rewards). I LOVE IT.

It’s easy to get addicted to this game. The levels and varying difficulties are great. I like all of the available levels and cities. Lives are replenished quickly which is good. But....there are a couple of things that would make this game better. I don’t understand the coins system. I won 150 coins and after a few games they were almost all gone but I didn't buy anything with them. Where do the coins go? What is the purpose of them? And they don’t build up over time. It’s very random how many I have and when. Also when you get to the end of a game and there is a truly unsolvable situation like the same card on top of itself, you lose the game. Unless you use a cheat. In every other Mahjong game I’ve played you win that level. That part makes it feel like they just want you to purchase cheats or make you use the ones you have.

In the best of times this app is five stars. It is an innovative and fun take on typical mahjong solitaire. The support team is also responsive and helpful. I have wanted to give it five stars for a long time now but haven’t due to two reasons. In the year that I have been playing, the rewards system has had several bugs or changes that cause you to lose out. You couldn’t view videos to get additional rewards, or gift boxes show up empty or have only one or two coins and nothing else. Power ups that used to be available via certain coin purchases are suddenly no longer available. These bugs or changes last months before getting fixed, or the developer decides to change the rewards structure again. The second issue is that not every puzzle has a solution, leading sometimes to days of frustration with certain non “hard” levels. I have literally been cornered on some occasions after 5 or 6 moves. In the past you could rely on power ups to get you out, but given the rewards issue I no longer have incentive to use rewards, which means I do not play as frequently. The net result is game usage has gone from perhaps an hour plus per day and 5-10 videos viewed to a few minutes and one video.

First off, the game itself is pretty fun. I was hooked from the start. I went over a month of playing without spending money. I kept collecting coins that I barely used. It was when I got to the harder levels that I ran into trouble. I kept having to use my coins on shuffles. I ran out of coins pretty quickly. I decided to pay just $3 to open my piggy bank. That didn’t last long. I then decided to do a cheap day trip bundle. I ran out of that pretty quickly as well. I eventually got a point where I couldn’t move forward without doing shuffles, which I didn’t have enough coins for. I think it’s worth it to spend a few dollars every so often if you really enjoy an app, but I didn’t want to spend all my money on this game. At the very least, I think they should lower the number of coins you need for a shuffle. The first shuffle is 90 coins, and then it costs more if you have to shuffle more to beat a level. That eats up the coins you earn very quickly. I eventually found a different Mahjong game that doesn’t have in-app purchases. I’m kinda sad to leave this game because I really liked it. It’s just too pricey.

I love this game! But since the latest update, I’ve been encountering some issues. 1. On the day of the update, I had purchased 24 hours of lives with in-game coins. When I updated the app (because I tend to be careless and just hit “update all” because why not?), I lost the rest of the time that I had. I realize this is partially my fault, I should’ve thought ahead, but this was extremely frustrating. 2. Lately, I’ve been having issues with the lives. I’ll go hours, like overnight, without playing, and when I open the app, sometimes it’ll say I either have 0 or 4 lives, and the timer for a new life will start. It’s especially irritating when it says 0, as I’ve waited all this time to play and now I have to wait even more. This never used to be a problem for me. 3. I’ve also had issues with the videos for lives. Lately when I’ve tapped on it, it says something along the lines of “a video is available every 30 minutes”, despite me not having watched a video in the past 30 minutes. Also, I just watched a video, as I had 2 minutes before my next life and I figured that by the time I watched the video and played the round with the free life, my next one would be ready, and when I finished the video, the timer had started over! This didn’t used to happen before either, and it’s disappointing, as I enjoy playing and would like to receive my lives when I’m supposed to. Other than these new issues, it’s a great game!

So I love mahjong and I like this game with the premise of traveling through the cities etc. It is addicting to try to play to win. That said, some days it doesn’t recognize you are back so no coins for that and there’s nothing you can do...you can play the same level for days because you can’t win without a cheat and you can’t get any cheats without winning (unless you want to spend money which is kind of silly for a game). I have deleted this once or twice out of sheer frustration that I have to watch a commercial multiple times when I lose but it doesn’t help me win at all. I am tempted to delete it again but I like the game, just not all the BS that comes with it. If there were more clear ways to help oneself win, then all the ads wouldn’t be so bothersome. But pretty much you have to watch the ads and apparently also spend money in order to get this game to really actually work.

This app is cute and fun and I enjoy it greatly! However, it is a complete and total rip off. It’s pretty much impossible to advance without spending money, and a lot of it. I have no problem throwing a few bucks towards an app I enjoy. But this game is unreasonably expensive. It’s $4 just to unlock the bonus coins you earn! And don’t get me started on the souvenirs. If I’m paying for a game I should get more than 10 minutes of playtime, wasting five lives on one level and then still having to come back later is bull. Seriously, I’m on the App Store today to download a different app. I’d rather purchase a game for a large amount upfront and get unlimited play rather than having to fork over $2 every time I want to actually move on. It’s a shame too, the game is a lot of fun. But every other phone game I’ve ever played got you a lot more for your money.

I love this game when it works. I could play it for hours. It is very challenging at times. It keeps my brain enhanced. I have been stuck on a level for over 30 days, walked away and came back and defeated it. I am on level 1086 now, that is how much I love this game! However for about a month or so, on my iPhone X and my iPad Pro 13” when Ads are shown to try to get a few coins or to go further in the game, I am encountering black screens afterwards whereas I hear the mahjong music but it doesn’t allow me to go back to the game without rebooting my iPhone or iPad. Then and only then, I maybe able to play one round and it repeats this cycle all over. I am not going to ruin thousands of dollars worth of devices for this game. I am to the point as much as I like this game, I am going to delete it and download some other manufacturers version. It’s bad enough you have to watch all of the lengthy Ads but it’s not worth it. I refuse to pay for any in app purchases. I will make sure I don’t download anymore games by them.

This is a really fun game, however, rewards are quite small and prices quite high. If you don’t finish a level — which you almost can NEVER get through — you have to pay 90 coins to “reshuffle” should you have to again, 120 coins, then 150 etc. if you don’t reshuffle, you lose all progress. I’ve bought packages and the piggy bank, the more “free” shuffles you get, the more you need them. They they are gone and your coins get drained very quickly. Rewards are generally less than 10 coins. You might kick out and win 50 or 100 on the daily spin, but that is rare. You also do not always get the items needed to advance and you have to okay over and over and over to get all of the “tickets” to move to the next section. Meanwhile this takes coins and coins and coins. The developers really should work on this. You will spend a fortune on this games pick a different one!

I played this for 2 weeks now, and I was having a lot of fun until I started to get to the harder levels. Now I don’t mind hard levels, but when you’re dying at the same level and using up all your lives and boosters like shuffles and bombs, repeatedly, it gets frustrating and stupid. There are daily challenges you can do to earn such things as money and boosters, those were great, however if you want different tiles you play a game and more than likely you will loose because that’s how they planned it. Then you have to go back at each level to find all the souvenirs and you can’t advance unless you get them all after you win each level and most of the time, at the end of a level you won, they give you something other than a souvenir so you HAVE to go back and keep trying for that souvenir!! It got boring and frustrating and that also comes into play in their tournaments! You can’t keep gaining in tournaments unless you get all the souvenirs! It’s so stupid! I ended up deleting it due to constantly loosing lives and all my coins trying to beat levels in New York. I hope they change a few things.

I, too, loved this game in the beginning but I wanted to move along so I would do the piggy bank but then I moved on to the gold coins. They never seemed to last long either. I then noticed a problem when I didn’t get the coins from my bank but I didn’t do anything because I thought I might be wrong and figured what is $2.5O. The next time I went to purchase a day pass I was able to get through the purchase and after I got the okay that the purchase went through, I was bumped out of the game. I checked my purchases and it went through but I never received the package I purchased.i notified Support and they told me to take a screen shot of my purchases, which I did and sent to them. I have heard from no one and it has been 5 days. I have reached out to them again and again but I am being ignored. I just wanted what I purchased but no longer. Now I want my money back. I am going to delete this game as much as I like it. I don’t like feeling like I am being scammed and that is what it feels like now. Watch your purchases and make sure you are getting all of them.

This has to be the most obnoxious game I have ever played in my life. It has me, a grown 40-year-old woman, throwing my phone across the room in frustration. The constant “Like us on Facebook!” ads are irritating to someone who is as strongly anti-social-media as I am. I absolutely refuse to spend my hard-earned money on a game. But apparently it is the ONLY way to advance in this game. As annoying as it is, it is horribly addictive. I cannot tell you how many times I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it again just because I couldn’t stay away for long. I have never had this kind of reaction to a game until now. There are very few opportunities to earn coins, and the 30-second ads are entirely too much. Watch one when you lose a level, and be punished with one when you win. I enjoy a good challenge, and boy is this game ever challenging! Bordering on downright impossible. I never, EVER write reviews for games but I felt compelled to write one for this one. Download at your own risk. UPDATE: I just deleted this app again, hopefully for good.

1. When playing on an older iPad,the game is slow and many of the ads freeze up so you lose some of the “rewards”. 2. When you are playing and run out of matches the game decides if you can use a shuffle or a bomb to try and gain matches. This is often frustrating because there are many times when there are less than 10 matches left, and the “shuffle ” option is given as the only option. Because you may have already used a shuffle option you will now have to “spend” at least 120 coins to finish the game instead of 90 coins to try the “bomb”, or use give up. This decision of which option should be left to the player. 3. Often times the game appears to run slowest when there is most likely a peak number of people playing it. I almost never have problems if I play early in the day, but later, like when people are probably finished work for the day, the game is slow and frustrating.