Mahjong · learn to play · four rule sets
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Mahjong for complete beginners and serious players alike: a guided first game, a coach that explains every discard, and opponents that play at your level, solo, with friends online, or around one table with everyone on their own phone.
iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 or later · No account
What it does
Four rule sets, one table
Hong Kong, Japanese Riichi, Chinese Official and American, each scored the way it is played, with a quiet director that tunes the opponents as you play.
Learn from zero
A guided first game teaches the tiles, sets and winning hands. Lessons, quizzes and a cheat sheet cover every rule set, and tiles can show plain corner labels until you know them by sight.
A coach beside you
Ask for a hint on any discard, see how close you are to a ready hand and which tiles you are waiting on, and after every hand see exactly how it scored and why.
Opponents that read the table
Twelve characters with their own styles, from speedy Auntie Lin to careful Professor Okada. A director watches how you play and tunes them as you go, and at the top level they choose their discards with a neural network trained by playing itself.
The World Tour
A 75-stage campaign across eight chapters, each at its own table and ending with a boss, then a final Grand Tournament. Earn up to three stars a stage.
Something new every day
A “what would you discard?” puzzle, a challenge game dealt the same for everyone, and a Solitaire layout, each with a Game Center leaderboard.
Eight hand-made tables
Jade Pavilion, Kowloon Neon, Ryokan, Shanghai Deco, Blue Willow porcelain, Ink & Bamboo, Lantern Festival and an 8-bit Arcade, each with its own tiles.
American, with our own card
American Mah Jongg with jokers, the Charleston and a card of hands to aim for. Mahjong Extreme plays it with its own original card, so you can learn and practise the American game anywhere.
Solitaire, a calculator and Table Night
Thirteen Solitaire layouts from a gentle warm-up to the 144-tile Turtle, every deal solvable. A score calculator for real-world games. And Table Night: an iPad or TV hosts the table while everyone plays from their own phone nearby, with no accounts and no internet needed.
On-device intelligence
On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, the director plans each hand with the on-device model and the opponents get their own table talk. It is optional, everything stays on your phone, and Mahjong Extreme plays the same without it.
Free to start, no ads
Play all four rule sets solo, the dailies, online with friends and Table Night as a guest for free, on the Jade Pavilion and Ryokan tables, against Auntie Lin, Professor Okada, Lucky Lou and Kenji, with the guided first game, the first lesson of every rule set, Solitaire's starter layouts and World Tour chapter one. The Full Game is a one-time purchase that opens the whole World Tour, hosting Table Night, every lesson and all thirteen Solitaire layouts. Table packs and opponent packs add tables and characters, and everything is shared with Family Sharing. No subscriptions, no coins, no ads, no tracking.
The full Mahjong Extreme privacy policy
Effective October 3, 2026. Plain English, no defined terms you need a lawyer for.