Über Kiesel-Mahjong
Pebble Mahjong is a mahjong solitaire puzzle played with painted river pebbles. Tumble the tortoise has painted little pictures on them, such as a leaf, an acorn, a toadstool, a ladybug, a snail or a rainbow, and stacked them in layers on the riverbank. There are 28 pictures and four pebbles of every picture in a heap.
Ten heaps are built by hand, from the 24 pebbles of Stepping Stones to the 100 of the Great Oak. After level 10 the eight bigger heaps come back with a shorter clock. Every heap is laid so that it can always be cleared, and so is every shuffle.
So wird gespielt
- Tap two free pebbles with the same picture to clear the pair. A pebble is free when nothing lies on top of it and its left or right side is open. Pebbles that are not free are shaded.
- Clear the whole heap before the clock runs out. When the time is up you lose one of three hearts and get 45 seconds more. If no pair is left, a Shuffle is used by itself, and with no Shuffle left it costs a heart. The game ends when the last heart is gone; a heart and a Shuffle come back at levels 6, 11, 16 and so on.
- A pair scores 20 points. Clear the next pair within five seconds and a combo multiplies it, up to five times. Both pairs of one picture back to back make a Full set, worth 50 more.
- From level 2 a golden pair scores three times as much. From level 3 any two of the four butterflies match, for 30 extra points. From level 5 mossy pebbles show their picture only once they are free.
- Every second left on the clock is worth 3 points, and a level cleared without Undo, Shuffle or Hint and without losing a heart earns a Perfect bonus of 150.
Steuerung
- Tastatur
- Click a free pebble, then click its match. On a keyboard, hop between free pebbles with the arrow keys, pick with Space or Enter, undo with U, shuffle with S and ask for a hint with H.
- Touch
- Tap a free pebble to pick it, then tap the pebble that matches. The Undo, Shuffle and Hint buttons sit under the heap.
Tipps
- Take pebbles from the top layers and from the ends of long rows first: they hold the most other pebbles shut.
- When three pebbles of a picture are free, clear the two that open up the most and leave the third for later.
- Hints are scarce: three to start and one more at levels 3, 5, 7 and so on. Tumble points at the pair that frees the most pebbles. You also get five Undos on every level.
- Spot your next pair before you tap the current one to keep the combo alive. A golden pair on a combo of five is worth 300 points.
