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🀄 A Chinese tile game 🧩 A tile-matching game
mahjong

mahjong

1 5.3
A one-player computer or phone game where you remove matching tile pairs from a stacked layout
  • noun
  • /mɑːˈdʒɔːŋ/
: mahjong
  • After hours of playing mahjong online, I finally achieved a new high score.

Examples

  • - Not too late with that mahjong, huh?

    Saint Jack (1979)

  • Two a.m., you dragged me 50 miles to watch you and some chick... ...play mahjong with her grandmother at a retirement home.

    Wedding Crashers (2005)

  • The supposed little squiggle looks like a mahjong tile on my computer.

    Blog text (28)

  • -You play mahjong?

    The Big Bounce (2004)

  • Mainly, I use it to play mahjong, The Simpsons Tapped Out, and Jurassic Park.

    Blog text (23)

  • Hell, even Microsoft's own Minesweeper, Solitaire, Mahjong, and Taptiles are awaiting an update to get ARM compatibility.

    Blog text (24)

  • In the single-player mahjong game, I matched all the pairs and cleared the board quickly.

  • She downloaded a mahjong app on her phone to pass the time during her commute.

Surface Forms

mahjong singular
mahjongs plural

Etymology

Mahjong is also the name used for the single-player tile-matching puzzle because the app and computer versions copy the real game's tiles and the idea of matching pairs, so the name moved from the original game to the puzzle form.