Mahjong Ways 2 Against the Original: What Changed and What Stayed
By PH90 Editorial Team
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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
| Item | Mahjong Ways | Mahjong Ways 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | 5x4 | 5x4 with an extra row on reels 2, 3, 4 |
| Ways | 1,024 | 2,000 |
| Cascade type | Cascading wins | Avalanche |
| RTP | 96.92% | 96.95% |
| Volatility | Medium | Medium |
| Maximum win | x25000 | x100000 |
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.
- Wins clear and new symbols fall.
- Golden tiles can turn wild in the fall.
- In free spins, the multiplier climbs toward 10 times.
- 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
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Notice the extra rows
Adding a row to the middle three reels takes the ways count from 1,024 up to 2,000.
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Follow the avalanche
Winning symbols fall away and golden mahjong tiles convert to wilds as new ones drop in.
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Treat 100000x as a ceiling
The cap sits beside a medium volatility label. Plan the session around the free-spin multiplier, not the cap.












