Mahjong Connect — also known as Shisen-Sho, Kyodai or Onet — is a matching puzzle played with real mahjong tiles. Remove every pair from the board before the clock makes you feel slow.
Mahjong Connect is a single-player matching puzzle built from a standard set of mahjong tiles. All tiles lie face up in one flat layer. You remove them in pairs, but a pair can only be removed when a line can be drawn between the two tiles that turns at most twice and crosses only empty space.
The game appears under several names. Shisen-Sho is the Japanese original, Kyodai and Onet are common in browser collections, and Mahjong Link or Mahjong Chain are used by many portals. They all describe the same rule: connect two identical tiles with a short path.
Mahjong solitaire stacks tiles in layers and a tile is only free when nothing sits on top and one side is open. Mahjong Connect uses a single flat layer, so every tile is reachable — the challenge is purely the path, not the stacking. Connect usually feels faster; solitaire feels more strategic.
Two. A straight line, one turn, or two turns — anything longer is not a valid match.
The board detects the deadlock and reshuffles the remaining tiles automatically, so a game is never stuck.