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Thanksgiving Mahjong
- 86tiles
- 3layers
- 26free at the start
- 11.8pairs open on a fresh deal, average
- 27%of boards lost by random clicking in my test runs
The turkey is 86 tiles: a fan of tail feathers three rows deep, a round body with a second and third layer, two legs and a small head off to the right. The flowers on this board are a maple leaf, an oak leaf, an acorn and a pumpkin; the seasons are corn, an apple, a pie and a sunflower.
It is a board for a full house, which is to say it is not hard. In my runs a player clicking without any plan still finishes 73 boards in a hundred, better odds than on any of the plain layouts except the smallest. The fan tail gives a wide free edge, and the body stacks are only two deep. Children who have just learned to match the suits can play it alongside adults who are half-watching a game on television.
Two things do catch people. The head is a pair of tiles hanging off the side of the body, and the lower one is pinned by the upper one; if the face you need is in the head, take the head first. And the legs are single tiles under the body that only come free when the bottom row above them has been thinned. The set is otherwise the standard one, with the same numbers and letters in the corners as everywhere else on the site.
