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Cat Mahjong Solitaire
- 68tiles
- 4layers
- 26free at the start
- 13.4pairs open on a fresh deal, average
- 24%of boards lost by random clicking in my test runs
A round face stacked four layers deep in the middle, two ears sticking up, a chin tile at the bottom. The Cat has 68 tiles and is one of the gentler boards: the face is wide, so its edges give you plenty of free tiles, and the ears come off in two moves each.
The depth is all in the centre. The top four layers of the face, fifteen, six and one tile, sit over the middle of the bottom layer, and the single tile on top covers four others. I usually take that one first, then work down the stack while the rim is still full. Leaving the stack for last is how this board is lost.
In my test runs a random clicker gets stuck on 24 boards in a hundred, close to Arena. If you would rather have the same number of tiles with a harder opening, Bridge makes you earn every free tile.
