Mahjong Vacations

This is a quality game but very difficult at the same time. You have to play a LOT of games in order to attain goals and advance, and for the somewhat impatient player I can understand them not continuing and just giving up. The steps to advance are extremely difficult and the amount of coins required to “purchase” a new country is costly. On the timed games the touch often doesn’t register, so it delays you when you have to repeatedly touch a tile until it registers, and this aspect has cost me a win many times because I ultimately exceeded the time limit. Also, there could be better explanation as to what the various numbers and colors mean, and it’s not clear what it takes to “complete” a country. The tutorial is very basic and not helpful in this regard. Lastly, it’s not easy to match four tiles in a row; it almost seems as though they are “fluid”, meaning, they change position from underneath various other tiles, to foil you from getting a bonus for getting four of the same tiles in a row. I can’t prove this but it does seem that way. Lastly, the game “teases” you when you start a game and it shows you three tiles of the same theme, but the fourth is buried deep and you’ll never be able to claim all four because eventually you will have to match two of them early on.

This is my favorite mahjong game! My only complaint is that the new vacation updates are few and far between. The last time new boards were added was a year ago! Please add more - I’m tired of playing all the old ones!

Love the graphics, the settings, the trivia notes etc., but points don't accumulate fast enough to let you skip around. In each game you "earn" just enough points to "buy" a trip to the next location. Sometimes you don't, so then you have to go back and replay a previous game. You have to visit each location in their pre-determined order, unless you want to pay real bucks to get points. I'm too smitten with my other (totally free) mahjong game (Mahjong Master, check it out) to get into this one, and there's not enough freebies to draw me in here. Played four games, including one replay, before I got bored with the tile set -- which you can't change until a new destination is chosen-- then deleted it.