Mahjong Balbal: Tile Match

Balbal is a tile-matching mahjong puzzle. You take a free tile from the pile and it moves to your tray; find its twin and the pair bursts. Fill the tray and the level ends — the real question is which tile to take, and when.

TILES FROM TURKIC MYTH
The marks are not dragons and bamboo but tamga: sky, birch, seal, wind and fortune. Every chapter carries its own set — sky and wind on the steppe, trees in the birch forest, fire and clan marks in the tent, water at the white lake, stone and dusk at the barrow.

HAND-BUILT LEVELS
Levels are not randomly generated; each is built on a hand-tuned skeleton. Early boards are four layers and open. Later ones reach seven, upper layers cover the ones beneath, and simply seeing which tile is available becomes part of the puzzle.

EVERY BOARD IS SOLVABLE
Boards are dealt with their solvability PROVEN: the layout is generated backwards from a valid removal order. If you lock yourself out, Shuffle always returns a solvable arrangement. When you lose, it was not the deal.

HELPERS
Shuffle, Search and Undo. Unlimited for the first ten levels, so you are not counting them while you learn.

OFFLINE, NO ACCOUNT
No internet needed. No sign-up, no password, no email. Your progress stays on the device.

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