Vita Mahjong Special Tiles

Bamboo, circles or coins, characters and other ordinary designs need an identical matching face. Animal and character artwork follows the same exact-match rule when used as a normal tile set. Both tiles still need to be free.

The theme section changes tile artwork and the table background. A different background or drawing does not normally change which ordinary faces match. Look closely at numbers and small strokes; two similar bamboo tiles are not necessarily the same tile.

A hidden tile conceals its face until you tap or press it to reveal the picture briefly. Remember that picture and find its free partner. A mystery tile has a particular partner elsewhere on the board; identify it before removing nearby pairs that may be needed to reach it.

These features are more common in Journey and themed boards than in the earliest ordinary levels. The labels here describe their behavior; event names and translated interface labels may change.

A themed challenge adds items associated with its current theme. Completing the relevant pair collects the challenge item and adds its points; you do not need a separate tap to collect it afterward. Journey uses the current weekly theme, with marked tiles that you deliberately clear to satisfy that board’s objective.

See mode objectives and leaderboards for the reward context. Auto Match can produce a Shooting Star that removes a random legal pair. It assists play; it is not a guarantee that the app will solve every board while unattended.

The four flower tiles form a matching group, and the four season tiles form another. Two different flowers can match each other; two different seasons can match each other. A flower does not match a season simply because both are special.

This flexibility can make an exposed flower or season pair useful for opening a stack. Compare what the pair reveals before taking it. The rule does not apply to differently numbered bamboo tiles or unrelated character tiles: ordinary faces still require an exact match.

A special picture does not bypass the blocking rule. An invalid tap can interrupt a combo just as it does on an ordinary tile. A hint does not break the combo, so use it when a legitimate match is hard to see rather than tapping at random.

Long runs produce the super-combo effects described in the game. The controls and combo guide explains why checking both tiles before touching them is more useful than racing the animations.

The documented app interaction lets you press an upper tile and move it slightly aside to peek at the face beneath. This is an inspection gesture, not permission to take a tile that remains covered. If that gesture is not available in your installed version, plan from the visible faces and reveal the lower layer normally.

Auto Match and Multiple Match can also act on eligible special tiles; the applicable event collection is handled with the match. A themed challenge may be named for a panda or the character fu, while individual boards can have their own names. Those names change between releases and are not permanent level identifiers.

For dense layouts, see pair-selection tips. The Mah browser game offers similar matching practice but does not reproduce all of the mobile app’s event tiles.