Ten Flowers Online Tournament - Tips and Tricks

MJT Tip - Chromebook and MJT Issues/Tips Please understand - I am not part of the Mahjong Time team. When you field questions, I answer as best I can and I reach out to the MJT team if I don't know the answer. I have no pull with them so please don't ask "can you get them to do x y z". It doesn't work with my husband, it seldom works with my son, and my puppy often will do what I ask but I also get that "talk to the paw" side-eye look on a regular basis. In other words, while I have all responsibility, I have no authority  So let's talk all things Chromebook. Some can, some can't. Some Chromebooks are able to run the Android version from the Google Play mobile store - but not all of them. Depends on the Chromebook model. You can only try and if it does, then it doesn't. Chromebooks were never meant to have a lot of processing power behind them which is why they don't work with most gaming systems or higher demand software. But what about ...

MJT Tip:  Timing is Everything On Saturday, the last table of the last round was running out of time. A bevy us were watching - hoping against all odds that they could finish in time (which they would not, too many tiles left). I'm in the chat counting down with them!!! When I started counting, they still had almost 3 walls to go through. Just as a good estimator, a fast pace will need 3 minutes a wall. They had 6 minutes when I started alerting them. 6 minutes. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 30 seconds. Truth be told, I was simultaneously cheering and yelling at the table. Puppy ran under the bed. Hubs threw pieces of chocolate toward me, much like they throw meat to the lions in the zoo. Penny/Pupsmom had squeaked by into first place until .... with 20 seconds - TWENTY - left, Marlene/Marlinka pulled her mah jongg! She won the tournament and $145! Had that table not finished, everyone would have gotten a 0 for that game and Marlene would have finished 3rd and only received $75. Now it was an ama...

MJT Tip:  Viewing the Game Timer Do you know how many minutes are left in your round?? Did you know there is a built in timer that counts down in hours/minutes/seconds? Just hover over the Wind/MP/Deal area at the top of the screen!! The example below shows 3 minutes, 40 seconds remaining. This is available to all players in all games, tournament and regular. You're welcome!!!