Tile Link

Classic tile matching: join two identical tiles with a line of at most two turns and clear the table against the clock.

Tile Link

The classic tile-matching puzzle known as Shisen-Sho, 사천성 or 连连看. Pick two identical tiles; if a line with no more than two turns can join them through empty space, both are cleared. Clear the whole table as fast as you can.

How to play

1. Pick a difficulty and press Deal the tiles.
2. Tap a tile, then tap a tile with the same face.
3. The pair is cleared when a line of at most three straight segments joins them without crossing

another tile. The line may run through cleared spaces and around the outside of the table.

1. Clear every tile. The clock stops when the table is empty.

If no pair can be matched, the remaining tiles are reshuffled automatically, at no cost. Every deal is different — the faces, the shape of the table and where each tile sits change every game — and every table is checked to be clearable when it is dealt.

Difficulties

Normal, Hard

Tiles, 60, 112

Faces, 15: one suit picked at random each game, plus winds and dragons, 28 picked at random from all 34 faces

Table shape, A new symmetric shape every game, A new shape every game, cut from the top

Copies of each face, 4, 4

After a match, Tiles stay where they are, Tiles above fall down to fill the gap

On a tall screen, such as a phone held upright, the table is dealt in a tall layout with the same number of tiles.

Time

• Your score is the time to clear the table, to a tenth of a second. Lower is better.
• Hint (+10 s) shows one pair you can clear and adds 10 seconds.
• Normal and Hard have separate leaderboards.
• The result screen also shows your hints, reshuffles and blocked pairs (two matching tiles that could

not be joined; they cost no time).

• The clock stops while the game is paused, and the tiles are turned face down so nobody can plan

ahead.

Controls

Action, Mouse and touch, Keyboard

Pick a tile, Tap it, Arrow keys, then Enter or Space

Let a tile go, Tap it again, Enter or Space on it again

Hint, Hint button, H

Pause, Pause button, Esc or P

The game pauses when its window loses focus. Sound, reduced motion and the interface language (English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese) can be changed at the top of the game.

Tip

Start with tiles on the edges: the space around the table is always free for lines. On Hard, think about what will fall into the gap before you clear a pair.