Mahjong Ways 2 Against the Original: What Changed and What Stayed

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Mahjong Ways 2 is the sequel in the PG Soft hub that PG Soft lists on its own games timeline under 14 April 2020, and the mahjong ways 2 numbers differ from the original in three places. The useful question is what, exactly, got bigger.

Mahjong Ways 2 against the original

ItemMahjong WaysMahjong Ways 2
Grid5x45x4 with an extra row on reels 2, 3, 4
Ways1,0242,000
Cascade typeCascading winsAvalanche
RTP96.92%96.95%
VolatilityMediumMedium
Maximum winx25000x100000

The small detail: the RTP barely moves while the cap quadruples. The higher cap comes at a price: you will rarely see it.

How the avalanche changes a round

Regulars do: keep playing the same way they did on the first game and read the longer chains as the difference. Golden mahjong tiles turn into wilds when they drop, and the free-spin multiplier rises to 10 times without resetting inside a round.

New players often: assume 2,000 ways means twice as many wins. More ways make small connections easier, and the printed volatility label stays medium.

  1. Wins clear and new symbols fall.
  2. Golden tiles can turn wild in the fall.
  3. In free spins, the multiplier climbs toward 10 times.
  4. The maximum is x100000.

Choosing between the sequel and its neighbours

The original Mahjong Ways is the cleaner place to learn a cascade, with 1,024 ways and a lower cap. Wild Bounty Showdown uses gold-framed symbols instead and starts its free spins on an 8x multiplier, which is a different bargain.

Stay with one of the three for a full session before switching.

Before you play it

Sign in through the login steps for the sequel, then look at the selector, because no stake range is printed anywhere on the studio’s page.

Regulars do: spend ten minutes on the original first. The sequel then reads as a comparison, not a first impression.

One more reading of the table helps. The RTP rose by 0.03 of a point, the way-count by 976 and the cap by 75000x, so the extra headroom is the main change and the long-run return is nearly untouched.

How to Get Started

  1. Notice the extra rows

    Adding a row to the middle three reels takes the ways count from 1,024 up to 2,000.

  2. Follow the avalanche

    Winning symbols fall away and golden mahjong tiles convert to wilds as new ones drop in.

  3. Treat 100000x as a ceiling

    The cap sits beside a medium volatility label. Plan the session around the free-spin multiplier, not the cap.

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Questions Newcomers Ask First

What changed in Mahjong Ways 2?

The middle three reels gain a row, ways rise to 2,000, cascades become avalanches, and the printed top win jumps from x25000 to x100000.

What RTP does Mahjong Ways 2 have?

PG Soft prints 96.95%, against 96.92% for the original. That is a difference of three hundredths of a point.

When was Mahjong Ways 2 released?

PG Soft's release timeline lists it as 04.14, month before day, meaning 14 April 2020.

Is a 100000x maximum realistic?

It is the published ceiling. A medium label next to a six-figure cap suggests the ceiling is a bookkeeping limit rather than an outcome to plan around.