Mahjong Ways: 1,024 Ways, Cascades and a Free-Spin Multiplier That Stays Up

Mahjong Ways is the first title in the PG Soft group of seven on this site, and the phone lobby on PH90 names PG in its studio strip. The original Mahjong Ways is a 5x4 game with 1,024 ways, and the number to remember is the free-spin multiplier.

Mahjong Ways figures from PG Soft

The small detail: the studio prints the RTP, which JILI never does, so this is one of the few titles on the site you can compare with a firm number.

How a Mahjong Ways chain pays

Regulars do: watch the length of a chain, not the size of one win. Free spins work differently. Each cascade adds to the multiplier, and it holds until the round ends. One long chain therefore beats several short ones of equal total length.

New players often: celebrate the first win and miss that the chain is still running. The reels refill, and the next win in the chain is worth more.

1. A win clears the symbols it used.
2. New symbols drop in and can win again.
3. Golden tiles may turn into wilds as the chain runs.
4. During free spins every cascade pushes the multiplier toward x10.

Neighbours in the PG Soft group

Mahjong Ways 2 lifts the evaluation to 2,000 ways, swaps the cascade for an avalanche and publishes a far higher cap, with an RTP only a few hundredths of a point away. Lucky Neko takes a different route to a multiplier, with cat symbols that each add 2.

Playing it

No minimum stake is printed for it, so use the in-game selector. Sign in first through the login checks before a cascade slot. A tidy first test is 30 spins at the lowest stake, noting how many chains run past 3 wins. Because the studio prints the RTP, the number to watch yourself is the one it cannot print: how long your own chains run before they stop.

Regulars do: keep a count of chains of four or longer. It tells you more about the feel of the game than the RTP does.