Mahjongg Dimensions Candy

Controls

Mouse on a computer, touch on a phone or tablet. Some games also take the arrow keys or the letter keys, and the game will say so when it starts.

Take it with you

Scan to open Mahjongg Dimensions Candy on your phone.

The rotating mahjong cube with sweets on the faces, played without the countdown that governs the timed versions of the same board.

That difference is worth more than it sounds. Take the clock away from a Dimensions cube and it stops being a recognition race and becomes what mahjong solitaire actually is: a planning puzzle where the order of your matches decides whether the board can be finished at all.

If you have only played the timed versions, this is where the game underneath them becomes visible.

How to play Mahjongg Dimensions Candy

Tiles are stacked into a rotating three dimensional block.
Match two tiles showing the same sweet to remove them.
Only tiles with nothing on top and one open side can be selected.
Drag to rotate the cube and reach the faces behind.
Clear the cube to finish.

Planning without a clock

With no countdown, the correct opening is to rotate the cube fully and read it before touching anything. On the timed boards that costs you seconds you cannot spare. Here it costs nothing and it is the single most valuable thing you can do.

What you are looking for is the tall stacks and the tiles buried under them, because those are what decide whether a board finishes.

Scanning by colour

Sweets are colour coded rather than pattern coded, so you can scan a face for a colour and check shapes afterwards. It is much faster than reading tile by tile, and on an untimed board it leaves more attention for the planning.

Tips and strategy

Reading the board first

Rotate all the way round before your first match. Note where the tall stacks are.
Identify tiles that appear four times. Those are your flexibility, and spending both pairs carelessly early is how boards lock.
Work out which face is most crowded and open it before it becomes the problem.

Clearing

Top layers first, always. A tile removed from the top frees several beneath, an edge tile frees almost none.
Clear a face before turning rather than rotating between matches.
The bottom layer is where boards die. Work towards it steadily instead of leaving it.

Bad habits

Playing an untimed board as if it were timed. The whole advantage here is the time to plan and most players do not use it.
Judging availability by what looks exposed rather than by whether the tile could slide out sideways.
Spending both pairs of a four tile set early.

The timed version is Mahjongg Dimensions Candy: 640 seconds, and the classic tile faces are on Mahjong Dimensions.