Sparrow Mahjong vs Puffy Dash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sparrow Mahjong
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Three mahjong traditions, each with its own rules engine and its own real scorer: Hong Kong Old Style, Chinese Official (MCR), and American with jokers and the Charleston. Four players, a full wall, and a score at the end you can check line by line. This is not mahjong solitaire. It's the four-player game. THREE COMPLETE RULE SYSTEMS • Hong Kong Old Style — 144 tiles, chow/pung/kong claims, faan scoring with the half-spicy payment table, sacred discard, kong robbing. Set the minimum at any hand, 1 faan, or the classic 3. • Chinese Official (MCR) — the full 81-fan competition table with the 8-point minimum, seven pairs, knitted straights, honors-and-knitted hands. • American — 152 tiles with eight jokers, the Charleston with blind passes, the courtesy pass across, exposures, joker exchanges, and a browsable card of 56 hand patterns. SCORING YOU CAN AUDIT Every hand ends in a receipt naming each pattern that paid and what it paid. Hong Kong and Chinese Official each carry a searchable card of every pattern the scorer can award, generated from the rules your table is actually using — so the limit hand prints your limit, and seven pairs appears only if you switched it on. A COACH, NOT A HINT BUTTON American's Recommended Hands ranks the card against your rack and the table. A hand whose last tiles are already in the discard pile ranks below one that's still alive; a joker can't fill a pair; a concealed hand can't be claimed into. Each suggestion shows how far off you are and what you're still short of. OPPONENTS THAT DON'T CHEAT Six bots across three difficulties, each with a temperament — call aggression, defensive discipline, hand ambition. Harder bots weigh more; none of them see more. Every decision is made from public information only: melds, discards, wall depth. Seat one, two, or three of them. PLAYABLE BY EAR Every tile says its name wherever it's drawn — rack, river, meld, receipt. The discard board tells you how deep the hand has got and what just landed, your turn and the table's calls are announced as they happen, and the rack carries a Discard action, so a hand can be played end to end with VoiceOver. Text follows your iOS text size all the way through the accessibility sizes. YOUR RECORD Hand win rate, self-draws, deal-in rate, net points, best hand, win streaks, favorite scoring patterns and a points-per-game chart — across all three traditions, drilling down from any game to any hand's receipt. Close the app mid-hand and it's waiting where you left it: same wall, same rack, same score. No ads, no accounts, no in-app purchases, and no network — it works on a plane.
Puffy Dash
Engage in four distinct brain-training mini-games set in a tranquil underwater world. Earn in-game currency to unlock beautiful new ocean backgrounds and complete achievements. Test your reflexes and memory in various challenging modes.
- Four brain-training mini-games
- Unlockable ocean backgrounds
- Pearl currency system
- Achievements and daily quests
- Challenge mode for streaks
- Jellyfish Journey, Coral Conundrum, Tidal Echo, Jellyfish Arrow Tangle
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Dive into a dreamy jellyfish world with four brain-training mini-games. Every victory rewards you with pearls to unlock stunning ocean backgrounds in the shop. Four Game Modes: • Jellyfish Journey — Plan your path across expanding grids, avoid corals, and reach the pearl. • Coral Conundrum — Spot the one arrow pointing a different direction from the swarm — in 5 seconds. • Tidal Echo — Memorize and replicate the arrow sequence shown on screen — in 5 seconds. • Jellyfish Arrow Tangle — A classic arrow-reaction challenge for quick reflexes. Progression & Rewards: • Pearl Shop — Exchange pearls for a variety of dynamic backgrounds. • Achievements — Cover every in-game action and serve as your core long-term goal. • Daily Quests — Refresh daily with fun objectives for bonus pearls. Challenge Mode: Take on a random sequence of mini-games and win big rewards for completing the streak.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Puffy Dash at 15.6 against Sparrow Mahjong's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Sparrow Mahjong | Puffy Dash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.8 (56 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 173 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ZACHARY BRUCE KOLODNY | Yichun Network |
In-app purchases
Sparrow Mahjong
No in-app purchases
Puffy Dash
No in-app purchases
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