Checked in the demo on November 14, 2026 · how we test
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Of the five games we tested, Mahjong Wins was the only one where our base-game spins finished in profit: +44x the bet over 275 spins. Gold tiles kept the cascades rolling, and the dry spells stayed short.
The reels run 4-5-5-5-4 for up to 2,000 ways to win. The headline addition is the special scatter. Its prize ladder tops out at 100,000x, the highest cap in the series.
How Super Scatter works
The scatter is a tile marked with the character 勝. It can land on any reel, and three of them trigger free spins. The special version only appears on reels 2, 3 and 4. If at least one of three or more scatters is special, the game pays a prize on the spot.
The prize is based on your bet per spin (there's no ante here): 50x for one, 500x for two, 5,000x for three and 100,000x for four. At a $1 bet the smallest prize is $50, half of what the other games in the series pay.
It never lands during free spins, so the prize only comes when the bonus triggers. The rules don't promise one at the start of a bought bonus either.
The top prize needs four special scatters, yet they can only land on three reels. So one reel has to show two at once. The game doesn't say how often that happens.
Free spins, gold tiles and a 10x multiplier
After a win the tiles clear, new ones drop in, and every cascade raises the multiplier. In the base game it goes 1x, 2x, 3x and then holds at 5x from the fourth cascade. Once the chain ends, it's back to 1x.
Gold tiles appear at random on reels 2–4. When one is part of a win it doesn't vanish. It turns into a wild for the next cascade, and that is what keeps chains alive.
Three scatters give you 10 free spins, plus 2 for each scatter beyond the third. Retriggers inside the bonus work the same way. In free spins the whole third reel is gold, and every winning combination covers at least the first three reels from the left. So every win runs through the middle and leaves wilds behind. The multiplier starts at 2x, climbs to 4x and 6x, holds at 10x from the fourth cascade and drops back to 2x when the chain ends.
Here's how that plays out at a $1 bet. Four green dragons pay 1.25x, or $1.25. On the first cascade of the bonus that becomes $2.50. If the same combination lands on the fourth cascade or later, it's $12.50.
The bonus triggered twice during our regular spins. The first one paid about 50x the bet, roughly $100 at our $2 stake. The second gave 10 free spins, and we didn't log its win separately. Both wins are counted in the base-game result below.
Buying the bonus for 100x
There's only one paid option: free spins for 100x the bet, which is $100 at a $1 bet. It gives you 3, 4 or 5 scatters, so 10 to 14 free spins.
Its RTP is 96.50%, exactly the same as normal play. On average each $100 buy returns about $96.50. There's no edge in it: you're paying to skip the wait.
We bought the bonus once in the first session. It landed four scatters and 12 free spins, and the gold middle reel kept handing out wilds, but the round paid only 19x the bet. Over the full day, all six buys together returned $1,436 from $1,200, or 120%.
We'd start with regular spins. In our session they brought two bonuses without the price of a buy.
How it differs from Mahjong Wins and Mahjong Ways
The core is carried over from the original: cascades, gold tiles, multipliers up to 5x in the base game and 2x, 4x, 6x, 10x in free spins. The grid has changed. The original had five reels of four rows and 1,024 ways. Here the three middle reels are one row taller, for up to 2,000 ways.
Free spins are awarded differently too. The original gave 12 spins for three or more scatters, while the new version gives 10 plus 2 for each extra scatter. RTP is slightly higher, 96.50% against 96.48% in the original. The prize ladder exists only in the new game.
Don't mix it up with Mahjong Ways. That series, including Mahjong Ways 2, comes from a different studio, PG Soft, and has its own rules.
Who it suits
Pick this one if you like a steady pace and a balance that drifts rather than dives.
If you're chasing bonuses worth thousands of times your bet, look elsewhere. Low symbol pays and a multiplier that resets after each chain keep the big hits rare.
Our demo test
About 275 regular spins at $2 and one free spins buy for 100x the bet. This game has no ante.
Whole session: staked $750, got back $676 — 90%.
About 275 spins at $2
▲+$88
staked $550 → got back $638
116% of the stake · two bonuses triggered on their own
Bonus bought for 100x
▼−$162
staked $200 → got back $38
19% of the stake · 19x win
The bonus that landed on its own out-earned the one we bought: about 50x the bet against 19x.
Screenshots from the demo.
How we tested
Played in the demo on November 14, 2026. With no ante available, we played regular spins at $2 and bought the bonus for 100x the bet. More in our methodology. Amounts are rounded to whole dollars.
Symbol paytable
What each tile pays
| Symbol | 5 in a row | 4 in a row | 3 in a row |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green dragon (發) | 2.5x | 1.25x | 0.5x |
| Red dragon (中) | 2x | 1x | 0.4x |
| White dragon | 1.5x | 0.75x | 0.3x |
| 八萬 tile | 0.75x | 0.5x | 0.25x |
| Five dots | 0.6x | 0.25x | 0.15x |
| Three dots | 0.6x | 0.25x | 0.15x |
| Two dots | 0.5x | 0.2x | 0.1x |
| Five bamboo | 0.3x | 0.15x | 0.05x |
| Two bamboo | 0.3x | 0.15x | 0.05x |
Payouts are in multiples of the bet, so five red dragons pay $2 at a $1 bet. The wild is a gold ingot. Like the gold tiles, it only lands on reels 2–4, and it substitutes for every symbol except the scatter.
Volatility
Low: small swings in the base game
The game rules rate volatility as low, and our base game bore that out with frequent small wins and only shallow dips.
Bonuses swung much harder. Of our six bought rounds, four returned less than their price, while the other two paid 222x and 334x.
RTP 96.50% or lower: how to check
One figure for both modes
In the demo, both normal play and the bonus buy run at 96.50% RTP. A lower-RTP version looks no different but pays back less, so open the rules and find the RTP line before your first bet.