Taipei is a modern, solitaire version of the ancient Chinese game, Mah-Jongg. Winning a game is much like solving an intricate puzzle. One false move at the beginning could ruin your chance of victory. And, while every game has a solution, finding it often takes hours of diligent play.
Playing Taipei is simple. The object of Taipei is to remove all of the tiles from the board. Tiles are removed from the board in matching pairs. Tiles can only be removed if they are "free." A tile is "free" if it has no tiles on top of it, and you can "slide" the tile out to the right or left.
The tiles used in Taipei are taken from the ancient game of Mah-Jongg. There are seven categories or "suits" in the Mah-Jongg tile set.
For all of the suits except the Seasons and Flowers, tiles must match exactly to be removed. Since there is only one of each kind of Season and Flower, any two in the suit may match (for example, Summer and Winter, or Plum and Mum).
Suit | Examples |
The Numbers | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Circles | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Bamboos | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Four Winds | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Seasons | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Flowers | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Dragons | ![]() ![]() ![]() |