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Crazy Quilt (solitaire), a solitaire card game where cards are removed from the edges of a grid.

Shisen-Sho, another solitaire game with Mahjong tiles.

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Premium editions of the Windows Vista operating system and Windows 7 include a version of the game known as Mahjong Titans. It was subsequently included in the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack. Although the name mahjong solitaire is widely used, other names include The Turtle, Shanghai Solitaire, Taipei, and Kyodai.Ī version of this game was also included in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows 3.x in 1990 under the name Taipei. The name 'Shanghai' was trademarked by Activision.Īs the game is based on mahjong tiles, some confusion arose with the 4-player mahjong game. The game has since been ported to many different platforms. The Macintosh version was created by Brodie Lockard, and the Apple IIGS version was ported from the Macintosh by Ivan Manley with Brad Fregger as the producer. The first version remained available for free.Īctivision released Shanghai in 1986 for the IBM Personal Computer, Commodore Amiga, Macintosh, Atari ST and Apple IIgs. Control Data Corporation released a new version as a paid online game in 1983.

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The computer game was released for free and was played using a CDC-721 touch screen terminal. Lockard claimed that it was based on a centuries-old Chinese game called 'the Turtle'. The computer game was originally created by Brodie Lockard in 1981 on the PLATO system and named Mah-Jongg after the game that uses the same tiles for play. Some implementations offer to shuffle the tiles when there are no exposed pairs remaining, making it almost always possible for the player to complete the game. Using traditional mahjong tiles, the sets include the dragons, the flowers, the seasons, and the winds. Points are gained for each pair removed, with bonus points for removing matched pairs in sequence or removing pairs in sequence that are parts of sets. Mahjong solitaire can be played either solo or with a partner, in which case the aim is to accumulate the most pairs, to be the last one to match a pair, or to score the most points.

Adding 'wildcard tiles' and other tiles that have special functions.

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Playing a series of different layouts with varying levels of difficulty (usually given Chinese-looking names such as 'the ox' or 'the snake').Changing the tile set and patterns from the traditional tiles to flowers, jewels or other items that may be easier to match up at a glance.

Some electronic Mahjong solitaire games offer extra options, such as: This removes the tedium of set-up and the temptation to cheat. Usually though, it is played in an electronic form as a computer game. Mahjong solitaire can be played using genuine tiles and a special wooden frame for set-up. Īn analysis of ten million games with the default layout, 'the turtle', found that about 3 percent of the turtles cannot be solved even when looking below tiles is allowed. In this case, however, it is NP-complete to decide whether all tiles can be removed. The perfect-information version of this puzzle is where the player knows, before the game starts, the position of every tile. It has been proven that it is PSPACE-hard to approximate the maximum probability of removing all tiles within a factor of n ϵ, assuming that there are arbitrarily many quadruples of matching tiles and that the hidden tiles are uniformly distributed. Playing Mahjong solitaire optimally in the sense to maximize the probability of removing all tiles is PSPACE-complete, and the game is NP-complete if looking below tiles is allowed. The game is won when all pairs of tiles have been removed from the board, and lost if the remaining tiles contain no exposed pairs.

The goal is to match open pairs of identical tiles and remove them from the board, exposing the tiles under them for play. A tile is said to be open or exposed if it can be moved either left or right without disturbing other tiles. The 144 tiles are arranged in a four-layer pattern with their faces upwards.

An untouched turtle formation, with exposed 'free' tiles highlighted in blue

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