Play Mahjong Solitaire With a Friend, Privately
Friends at Mahjong Solitaire lets you send a friend the exact board you just played, or take the same deal at the same time and talk about it afterward — privately, invite-only, with no public chat attached.
A solitaire game that's still a solo game
Mahjong Solitaire is a single-player game by design: you clear the board by matching pairs of free tiles, and nothing about the core game changes when a friend is involved. What changes is that you can share a specific board with someone, rather than playing in isolation every time.
How the Friends feature works
There are two ways to use it. You can send a friend the board you just finished so they play the identical deal you did, or you can both take the same board at the same time. Either way, it's private and invite-only — there's no public chat layered on top. It's like handing someone a crossword you just finished and saying "try this one."
Why that's a fit for a relaxing game
The Daily board already gives everyone the same deal each day with no streak to protect and no penalty for missing one. The Friends feature extends that same idea to playing with other people: you're sharing a board, not chasing a ranking.
Who this is for
If you've ever wanted to send someone a puzzle and say "try this one," the Friends feature is built for exactly that moment. It also works if you're introducing someone to the real 144-tile Mahjong set — Bams, Craks, Dots one through nine, Winds, Dragons, and Flowers — and want them to try the same board you did so you can talk through it afterward.
Getting started
Play opens in full screen with no download and no registration required, and the first ten levels of the Journey plus the full Daily board rotation are free, with every helper included. From there, sending a board to a friend or taking the same deal together is built into the game itself.
If you want to go further with the tiles afterward, the same tile set is used in Mahjong Lexington's American Mah Jongg lessons, for anyone who wants to learn the four-player game the tiles were originally made for.