My grandmother wants to install Mahjong onto her phone. I couldn’t find any results on the Play Store with no ads or in-app purchases. She doesn’t understand technology and could get tricked into purchasing stuff or compromising her data.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    11 months ago

    I saw that, but the description says:

    Shisen-Sho is a Japanese tile-based game which uses Mahjong tiles.

    I’m not a Mahjong player, but are Shisen-Sho and Mahjong the same game?

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      11 months ago

      Do you know what she actually wants to play? Mahjong is a multiplayer game, usually played with four players. Shisen-Sho is a singleplayer game but it is colloquially called Mahjong. When someone says Mahjong they often mean Shisen-Sho without even realising there is a difference.

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        11 months ago

        When someone says Mahjong they often mean Shisen-Sho without even realising there is a difference.

        I ended up installing FreeShisen for her. You’re probably right because she’s looking for a single-player game where you match tiles. She got into “”“Mahjong”“” because it was previously installed on her laptop under that name, i.e. she’s not looking for the “true” or otherwise more obscure game.