Six thousand free boards, and oorio Mahjong wants to show you where you went wrong
A mahjong solitaire for phones that treats a lost board as something to study, with 6,000 free puzzles and subscriptions that stay out of the way.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
Most mahjong solitaire apps meet a lost board with a shrug and a shuffle button. oorio Mahjong, from the South Korean studio AIVERA / oorio, meets it with a post-mortem, and that single decision is the most interesting thing about it. The dead-end screen in the screenshots is blunt: 24 tiles left, twelve pairs, none of them removable. It then suggests you restart or open something called Branch Analysis to look at the choice that put you there. That screen is the one worth studying. The board sits on a deep green table with a column of filters down the left (all layers, each of five layers...