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Mahjong where the tiles are hiragana. Rearrange your hand into five Japanese nouns to win.

■ How to play
• Arrange your 14 tiles into four 3-tile words and one 2-tile word (いちご, きつね, てれび, あめ…)
• Draw, discard and rearrange your words as you go for the win
• Ron off another player's discard, or call chi to complete a 3-tile word
• Declare riichi when you're tenpai with a closed hand
• Only common nouns count. Place names, people's names and other proper nouns don't
• Four-player games against 3 CPUs

■ Yaku are words from the same category
• 38 categories, including Fruit, Vegetables, Birds, Bugs, Weather, Vehicles and Instruments
• The more words from the same category, the higher the score. All five from one category is yakuman
• The app counts each word in the category that scores highest

■ Made for word lovers
• You see right away when a slot becomes a word
• Each word gets a tag showing how it's written in kanji or katakana (はし → 箸・橋・端)
• About 5,300 words
• Share a winning hand as an image

■ Anagram Puzzles
• Rearrange the tiles of five words from a winning hand into five different words, without keeping any of the originals
• 100 puzzles, from easy to hard, with no time limit
• Every puzzle has an answer where all five words share a category, like Fruit or Birds. Stuck? Hints reveal that category, then its words (up to three per puzzle). Solve with one category to earn a star

■ Daily Twenty
• Everyone gets the same deal each day. Solve it in 20 moves and clear as many tiles as you can, with no time limit
• Your first play of the day puts you on a leaderboard with every player. Make your name from two of the game's words, and add an achievement as your title
• Share your result as an image with the letters hidden

■ Speed Words
• Rearrange three tiles into a word, again and again, in 30 seconds. Beat your best word count
• Your best play of the day goes on a leaderboard with every player. With the same number of words, whoever made the last word sooner ranks higher

■ Collect words
• Words from your winning hands are collected in the Word Book, by category
• 82 achievements, from your first mangan or yakuman to each category's yaku, winning an East Round and solving Anagram Puzzles
• Stats show your placements and win rate
• Unlock new table and tile looks through achievements and the Word Book

■ For riichi players
• Familiar terms: riichi, ippatsu, ron, tsumo, chi, han, mangan, yakuman, dealer and renchan
• Haitei, houtei, tenhou and chiihou are 1 han each. No dora or honba. The fun is in building words

■ Language
• The app is in English and Japanese. It follows your device language, and you can switch in Settings
• Tiles and words are always Japanese hiragana

■ What's free
• Play up to 3 Single Hands a day for free
• Watch a video ad to play one more hand (ads only play when you choose)
• The first Anagram Puzzle is free. Each video ad you watch opens the next one. The first hint is free, and the second and third are shown after an