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3 of the Same: Match 3 Mahjong
Mahjong tiles meet match-3 rules: pull three alike into a seven-slot tray until the board is empty.
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- Developer
- FIOGONIA LIMITED
- Score
- 4.6
- Downloads
- 10K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 12+
- Genre
- Puzzle
- Price
- Free
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About this game
3 of the Same takes the tile set from Mahjong and plays it by match-3 rules. Tiles are piled up in 3D layouts, and the player picks them off into a tray at the bottom of the screen that holds seven. Put three identical tiles in the tray and they vanish. Fill all seven slots without a match and the round is lost. Clearing an entire board finishes a level, and there are thousands of them, from gentle starters to very hard late puzzles. When things go wrong there are hints, shuffles and undos to fall back on, plus Magic Wand and Question Mark tiles that show up on the board itself. Tile themes rotate through fruits, sweets, flowers, vehicles and planets, with more added over time. The game is free, and the developer states that every puzzle is solvable, so a lost round is always down to the order of play rather than a dead layout.
3 of the Same: Match 3 Mahjong: the full guide
What the game is
Take a Mahjong tile set, pile the tiles up in three-dimensional stacks, and then play it like a match-3: that's the premise Fiogonia is working with. You pick tiles off the stack and drop them into a tray along the lower edge, and whenever three identical ones sit in the tray together they disappear.
The tray has only seven slots. Fill them without completing a triple and the round is lost, which is the single source of tension in the whole game. Clearing the board finishes a level, there are thousands of levels, and the tile artwork rotates through themes such as fruit, sweets, flowers, vehicles and planets.
How a session plays
Each level opens on a heap of tiles, some visible, some tucked underneath. You tap the ones you can see, hunting for triples, while watching the tray count creep toward seven. Early boards clear in under a minute. Later ones demand that you deliberately leave matches unfinished to dig out what's buried beneath them.
When the tray gets dangerous there are hints, shuffles and undos, plus the Magic Wand and Question Mark tiles appearing among the stacks as helpers. The developer insists every layout is solvable, so a failed round is always a sequencing mistake you can learn from rather than bad luck.
Why people look for it
This style of tile-tray matching had a surge of popularity through a handful of viral titles, and players who got hooked go looking for more boards once they've exhausted one. 3 of the Same offers thousands of levels and themed tile sets, which is exactly what a player in that mood wants: the same mechanic, more of it, and no learning curve.
Look and feel
Tiles stacked in 3D heaps give the boards a tactile, cluttered look that's quite different from a flat match-3 grid, and the rotating themes mean the same layout can be dressed in fruit one day and planets the next. Five screenshots on the page likely show that range. The seven-slot tray is the one fixed interface element and sits where your thumb naturally rests.
Updates and upkeep
The description's claim that new tile themes are added over time implies ongoing work, though there's no version data to verify it. Fiogonia Limited is the publisher, with a 4.6 rating across more than 10K ratings, a reasonable sample for a puzzle title. Only the App Store link is recorded, so Android availability isn't confirmed by our data.
