Mahjong Demon app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
2464 ratings )
Games
Board
Card
Developer:
NUTRACTOR
2.99 USD
Current version:
6.4, last update: 9 months ago
First release : 06 Jul 2009
App size: 103.82 Mb
This is a Mahjong game of the Japanese style rule.
The Slider that exists under the screen is moved, and the tile is selected.
And, the Slider is done in the tap and the tile is discard.
Mahjong is the game to finish four Melds and one Pairs.
Example: [1, 2, 3][6, 6, 6][6, 7, 8][N, N, N][4, 4]
However, there is a hand not approved when Chi, Pon, and Open Kan.
Please note whether there is a hand when you do 1 and 9 in Chi and Pon.
In the rule of the japanese mahjong, one or more hands are necessary.
The hand can be made by paying 1,000 points and doing Reach.
However, when Chi, Pon, and Open Kan are done, Reach cannot be done.
If it is a closed hand, high point will be obtained.
About Lost Hand. A hand that is Waiting, but cannot be won off someone elses discard due to the fact that the owner of the hand already threw a winning tile in their own discard.
Lost Hand if one in all winning tiles are here even if discard doesnt do the tile which it wants to do. But, self-draw is possible even with Lost Hand.
The knack is that Ron is never done by the other party.
Ron is never done with the tile that does Discard.
Please reason the Hand from other partys Discard and win.
Pros and cons of Mahjong Demon app for iPhone and iPad
Mahjong Demon app good for
The game runs smoothly and has many options which makes it a good program for learning and playing Japanese mahjong. I would prefer if there was a page or instructions and rules for the game so I can go to it at anytime to review the scoring.
Controls are decent and as an amateur hong kong mahjong player, this is fun and easy to play since I recently started learning how to play other types of mahjong.
I believe a fix for game continuation upon sudden interuption should be integrated as well. My game crashes sometimes after someone wins a hand, when I click the button to view the table.
So far, I like what I see, best of all its English.
Keep up the good work! Thank you! Recommending this to all of my friends!
Finally an app for Mahjong the way it should be played. If you want to play Japanese rules, this is the app to get. Voices and pronunciations of terms could use a lot of work though.
v1.3.1 features excellent graphics and play. Ive been looking for a REAL Mahjong game (not one of the tile-matching ones) on various platforms from my Mac to my Nintendo DSi. iPhone and Mobile Mahjong for the win!
I have 5 dif. Mahjong apps and believe the best ones are Mahjong Mobile and another Japanese one, so ive been forced to learn riichi mahjong - which i dont regret at all.
One thing would make this app my absolute favorite: could the games be played in landscape mode? That way the tiles can be bigger.
Love the ipad version too!
Ill preface this with its a very good mahjong app. It does most things I want perfectly. Though the voices are annoying my phone is usually on silent anyway.
That said your app seems to use a slightly different version of the Japanese ruleset. For instance a pon of dragon tiles does not give the one Han requirement. Also no terminals doesnt appear to give a Han if you open it, where it does in most variations of Japanese mahjong Ive played.
If I had some way to play under the rules we usually do in person, that would be amazing. All aside, its still great to be able to play a quick game when Im out.
Some bad moments
stupid game design.....why the cards open at all times even when i chose not open stupid voices creeps me out.....wish never bought this game
This is a re-write of my earlier positive review. The current version keeps crashing back to my "desktop" on the touch. It is now unplayable. Hope this gets remedied.
Be aware that this is one of the Japanese variants of Mah Jong but, if you play Chinese Classic or Hong Kong or Shanghai or any other popular version, its easy to learn - at least enough rudiments to play. Reach, Dora Tiles and Sacred Discards are some of the fundamentals - and, for my money - they enrich the game. I still enjoy the other variants, but Japanese Modern is my favorite.
The AI, unlike all the other Mah Jong apps Ive tried for my Ipod Touch, is fairly strong. For example, SG Mahjong - the Shanghai game - is an app I really like. Yet, I can consistently win at the hardest level. Mahjong Mobile takes me to the cleaners as often - no more often - than I beat it. To win consistently, you need to read discards and really know special hands that will yield limit scores.
I like the graphics on this program a lot - but my favorite game play feature is the means of discarding a tile. On most apps, you double tap or slide a tile. If your fingers are not thin - or if your aim is off - you end up accidentally discarding that red dragon you just drew for a hidden pong. With this app, there is a slider that moves beneath the tiles. When the proper tile is chosen for discard, you tap the slider bar and get the discard you want every time.
My only beef with the app is the voice adaptation. Its annoying, because it pronounces char (hard k, as in characters) like char (as in burn the food). Dora tiles are called duh-rah - emphasis on the last syllable. I think the author might either consider losing the voice - or programming the words to be pronounced phonetically. But this is a small complaint about a really first rate program. Buy it - you wont regret it!
Dr. Gary Axelson
