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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Mahjong games:

   Today’s game is basically Mah-jong. There are many open source projects out there and a great guy has spent a lot of time collecting information and download links and placed them altogether in one place. This has been posted elsewhere in the forums previously, but I can’t find the post, and I’ve posted details of at least a couple of the Mah-jong games available from this amazing list. Greylox first pointed me to this brilliant list earlier this year. I’m not going to even bother listing any of the games available, suffice it to say most of the have the title Mah-jong or one of the many different was of spelling it in the title, plus a ver other iterations such as Shanghai, Tapei and a few unusual ones such as The Ace of Penguins and Take away. There are 90 games available for free, most of which are Freeware plus a couple of open source and even a few abandonware ones. Several of them are for palm /pocket PC’s :) Here’s an image of part of the Mah-jong page:

   

   You can get details and download links for most of these games HERE. The owner of the site can’t guarantee that all the links are still valid, but he’s said he can post new links if you contact him. Or you could just Google the name of the game and you’ll probably find other download links. :)

   Here are several images of some of the games you can find in the list. Most games have at least one image included as well as a download link:

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   wizzard_of_ozz2004
   Games Master

   That post you discussed can be found here. I posted this site a really long time ago, I forgot to check to see just how long though lol.

   Posted 14 years ago #
3. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Nice one wizz. Totally forgot about that. It was Graylox that reminded me though. :)

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Spiritwolf
   Member

   As an avid Mahjongg lover ever since Kristianix games gave away Mahjongg Epic back in June 2008 (I wish they would offer it again, mine on the Vista laptop stopped working right & I would love to have it back on the laptop too!) I'm DELIGHTED to see a freeware mahjongg feast. I'm going to go check out the links given here, and hope that the freeware mahjongg games are still in existence and NOT tied to sites that demand you have connection to use their games or come bundled with malware that pops open your browser windows etc. I also hope they are truly free, not 40 minute trialware masquerading as freeware as so many so called "freeware" mahjongg games are being presented on many freeware sites, with the nasty little time limited trialware surprise not revealed until you install it and open it.

   May these truly be freeware, I hope!!!!!

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Spiritwolf
   Member

   Update, just saw the site, it's one I've been to several times before, and although the site owner has done a nice job of presenting a great collection of links for a wide variety of OS, that site badly needs to be updated. A number of those games are either no longer free or as with the Moraff mahjongg games claimed to be freeware, open only on a page for downloading their trialware instead of true freeware.

   Gekko Mahjongg is trialware, not freeware. It may have been freeware at one time but it sure isn't now!

   While the pysol collection looks nice, I never could get it to properly install and open on either XP or Vista.

   The Great Mahjongg is a weird freeware that traps your cursor within the program window so you can't do anything else at all until you exit the program.

   Most of the Mahjongg games as well as other games that I've downloaded from the Caiman site have been really nice freeware games.

   Overall, Camiman is one of the best freeware games sites I've seen.

   It's also clean, you can download and play their games without dealing with such things as your cursor being trapped in the game window or having your browser open every time you close the game, etc.

   I do hope Games GAOTD will bring back Mahjong Epic again. That game had 100 different layouts, beautiful graphics, etc. Another nice shareware that would make a good giveaway is Kyodai Mahjong, quite a few layouts, as well as a number of different games bundled in the Mahjong package, and decent graphics (although Mahjong Epic in my opinion, has the most exquisitely beautiful graphics of all the mahjong games I've tried)

   Posted 14 years ago #
6. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Thanks for the info Spiritwolf. This is one of those occasions when I don't test all the games I post. It would have been a few days of a job at the very least. When I started the project last year I only ever intended to post the links and maybe a small amount of basic info on the game, but as time has passed, the posts have got more in depth and now with the addition of images, I spend far too long on each post. I'd much rather be playing my games, but it's become a bit of an obsession and I'm still enjoying hunting for games and posting them here.

   Tankfully since wizzard of Oz and reversOrder have been helping it's given me a lot more time to do other things. Shortly after starting the project last year I totally neglected one of my admin duties over on one of the Battlefield 2 sites . I didn't visit for nearly three months and when i finally found the time to visit to see what was happening I discovered the site had gone. (Well, moved to a different place, lol) In fact I've neglected virtually all my other pet projects since starting this project.

   I hope you've found what you're looking for.

   I'd really appreciate it if you could post details of any of the Mahjong games you've found that are still freeware and worth downloading. Thanks in advance.

   W.R.

   Posted 14 years ago #

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