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As a change from a usual schedule, I want to start with a little history lesson. According to all the history books ever made, Mahjongg is pretty old. Certainly older than most other games you see on your iPhone, clocking in at around 150 years old depending on which theory you believe. It’s no surprise why it’s stuck around for so long as it’s pretty good fun. There are a few different variants of the game with arguably two being the most popular. One is a four player version a little bit like Rummy or Dominos, while the other is the one that is most often demonstrated in games such as Mahjongg Artifacts 2. For those of you who have never played a Mahjongg game of this type, it involves a screen full of tiles all with different symbols, essentially you have to match the tiles together. Thankfully it’s not as simple as that, otherwise we’d have a pretty tedious game on our hands. You can only choose a tile that isn’t ‘trapped’ amongst the other tiles, each board is arranged in a way that means you have to ‘unlock’ other tiles to reach them so that you can complete the puzzle. Make too many wrong moves and you’ll be stuck with no moves left to play. Read more »