LaunchMasterMahjong

Mahjong Launch Master is a distance-launcher. You load a small mahjong man into a bamboo catapult, wind the sling back, and fire him across a world built entirely out of mahjong tiles.

One run is one flight. Everything he smashes on the way makes him faster, and the further he lands, the more gold you bank. Spend that gold on the workshop, then launch again and go further. Run, upgrade, run further — that is the whole loop, and it is the most addictive shape this genre has.

At the catapult you set two things. First the power bar sweeps back and forth — tap to lock it, and try to stop it inside the gold band for full muzzle speed. Then the angle needle sweeps across your available arc — tap again and the little man is gone.

A flat angle keeps you inside the tile ribbons for longer. A steep angle buys air time and reaches the spring clouds. Your Launch Angle upgrade widens the arc you are allowed to pick from.

Tiles Are Fuel Every tile you hit shatters and gives you a burst of speed. Tiles of the same suit as your last hit give almost twice as much, and a long unbroken chain keeps stacking a bonus on top.

That is the core skill of the game: the tile field is seeded with ribbons of a single suit, and flying along one of those ribbons is always the optimal line. Read the field ahead, then steer into the ribbon instead of just falling through the middle.

Bamboo shows real bamboo joints, Circles are stacked ring-dots, Characters carry a Chinese numeral over the Ten Thousand glyph, and the honour tiles — East, South, West, North and Red, Green, White — are single big centred glyphs that hit hardest of all.