Comparison

SillyTale MahJong Lite vs Mahjong Challenges

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

SillyTale MahJong Lite

Embark on a puzzle-solving adventure with gradually increasing complexity. Navigate mysterious pyramids and altars, facing increasing challenges. This game offers a gentle mode with hints and shuffles, elegant graphics, and traditional Chinese motifs to help you calmly solve each puzzle.

Highlights
  • Increasing levels of difficulty
  • Hint and Undo features
  • Pinch-to-Zoom layout view
  • Elegant graphics and music
  • Saving progress on exit
  • Unique scoring system
Features
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Don't forget to install our free MahJong for iPad - SillyTale.com Start your new adventure, solving puzzles with gradually increasing complexity. On your way you expect the mysterious pyramids and altars. At the end of the path awaits the Temple with an increased level of difficulty. But to get to it, you'll need to overcome guarding the Pyramid, you will require persistence and patience. Good luck in your adventures, you'll need it! The objective of this game is to try to reproduce the maximum complexity of the real solitaire originally created by Brodie Lockard. Only in this way the real winners may get to the top of the best. However, the game has a more gentle mode: a hint with timeout and shuffle to help players don't get stuck in the game. A elegant graphics and music with traditional Chinese motifs can help to dissolve in the game, calmly and confidently move forward to solve the next puzzle. The objective of the game SillyTale Mahjong is to eliminate all pieces from the board. Find matching pairs of images at the left and right ends of the lines at the various pyramid levels. After playing few games you, the player, will start developing a technique to play better games and eliminate more pieces from the board. The elimination of some pieces will open more possibilities than others; it is part of the fun to develop the skill to "clean" the board game. This MahJong game will tell you when no more moves are possible; this means not always is possible to eliminate all pieces from the board. Features: -Favorite layout the Turtle and more -Hard classic game -Increasing levels of difficulty -Pinch-to-Zoom the layout view -Increased field of view -Hidden control panel -Hint and Undo -Music and sound control -Saving when exit and goes to background -Unique scoring -Support iPhone 5 display
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About

Mahjong Challenges

Experience the classic Mahjong solitaire game with a timed challenge. Remove all tiles by matching pairs, utilizing unlimited undo, hints, and shuffles. Compete for high scores on 300 unique board layouts.

Highlights
  • 300 board layouts
  • Infinite Undo, Hints, Shuffle
  • Adjustable tile illumination
  • HD graphics
  • Guaranteed solvable puzzles
  • Score based on time
  • High score tracking
Features
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Mahjong Challenges is the classic Mahjong solitaire game, with the variance of each game must be resolved on a given time or less. Hoy to play Mahjong: The goal is to remove all the tiles from the board. You may remove only paired free tiles. The tile is free when there are no tiles either to the left or to the right from it. In this Game you will have: - 300 Board layouts - Infinite Undo, Hints, Shuffle. Easy access at the bottom of the board. - Shadow: you decide to illuminate the entire Layout, or only the clickable tiles. - HD Images. - All puzzles can be solved. - Tile set design for easy recognition. - Score based on the time elapsed between matches. Less time more points. - Each Board has a High Score that you can beat. - Universal Game. You can play on iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Enjoy!

Screenshots

SillyTale MahJong Lite4 screens
Mahjong Challenges4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SillyTale MahJong Lite at 81% against Mahjong Challenges's 29%. SillyTale MahJong Lite also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 34 months) and ratings volume (53 vs 4). Mahjong Challenges's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SillyTale MahJong Lite sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Mahjong Challenges sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mahjong Challenges holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SillyTale MahJong Lite has 53 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of SillyTale MahJong Lite's written reviews are positive against 29% of Mahjong Challenges's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SillyTale MahJong Lite ships an update monthly, Mahjong Challenges every 34 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SillyTale MahJong Lite versus Mahjong Challenges: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSillyTale MahJong LiteMahjong Challenges
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (53 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews — better29.4% of reviews
Number of ratings53 — better4
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 34 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better13
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPetr MizerovJose Varela

Customer experience

SillyTale MahJong Lite

All ratings52 ratings
Positive73.1%
Neutral13.5%
Negative13.5%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative12.5%

Mahjong Challenges

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive29.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative70.6%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

SillyTale MahJong Lite

One-time5
  • Shuffles+3$0.99
  • Instant Hints$0.99
  • Disable Ads$0.99
Show 2 more
  • Shuffles+10$1.99
  • Unlock all$2.99
6 purchases

Mahjong Challenges

One-time6
  • 3 extra lives$1.99
  • Undo button$1.99
  • Hint$1.99
Show 3 more
  • Double time$1.99
  • Shuffle$1.99
  • Set of 5 lives$2.99

Questions

Is SillyTale MahJong Lite free?
SillyTale MahJong Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mahjong Challenges free?
Mahjong Challenges is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SillyTale MahJong Lite or Mahjong Challenges?
Mahjong Challenges is rated higher. SillyTale MahJong Lite averages 4.2 out of 5 from 53 ratings, while Mahjong Challenges averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do SillyTale MahJong Lite or Mahjong Challenges have ads?
Neither SillyTale MahJong Lite nor Mahjong Challenges shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SillyTale MahJong Lite or Mahjong Challenges?
SillyTale MahJong Lite ships an update monthly, and Mahjong Challenges every 34 months. Most recently, SillyTale MahJong Lite was updated on October 23, 2026 and Mahjong Challenges on October 23, 2026.

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