Mahjong 88

This is not the version of Mahjong you are used to, but it gets pretty damn close. The usual reels of your basic slots have been done away with. Instead, the game uses the reactor style that has become quite popular in recent years. This means that the game is played on a grid of eight times eight symbols, with winning combinations calculated from adjacent positions. This slot offers an interesting new version of the base game, and if you are a fan it is definitely worth a look.

Theme

Mahjong is an ancient Chinese tile game. It was also massively popular in the early era of internet and mobile gaming, which is why the game is popular and known throughout the world. The theme is quite clear, even if the game doesn’t play out like Mahjong normally does. The graphics are outstanding and the background itself is built to resemble the actual board. Music and sound effects are a bit here and there, but they’ll do given how well everything else goes together. Great job by Play’n Go.

Betting Options and Functions

The basics of the gameplay follow similar reactor slots. The more symbols adjacent to each other the bigger the wins, similarly you can collect certain symbols to activate special features. The betting range offers you choices from 0.10 to 100 coins per spin. The RTP is quite nice, standing at 96.62%.

At least twelve symbols are needed to claim the top prize from any of the symbols. The maximum you can win is 500 times the bet, with most four symbol combos paying barely enough to give you an even return. There’s plenty of variation and variance here, but it all plays together quite well. The maximum win from a single round is half a million coins, which is no small sum.

Features

Hidden tiles are the feature you will run into first. These are blank positions that will reveal their symbols once adjacent to a winning combination. As usual in this kind of games, all winning symbols also disappear from the game and reveal new ones, and this goes on as long as wins keep forming up.

The main feature comes in the form of a magical frog. The magic is charged by scoring wins, and once you have enough symbols gathered this way one of four features will trigger. These include symbol changes into scatters, other symbols, as well as connecting symbols with others.

There is also the ultimate feature, which triggers when at least 88 symbols are collected. This feature will then run for one game round with all wins multiplied by five!

Our Take

Mahjong 88 is an interesting slot that comes with plenty of unique features. It’s not the first game to use this sort of setup, but it’s one of the first to pull it off with the kind of quality that will make this game a classic for some time to come. Give it a spin, with free or real money!