How coins work
Coins are kept on your account. Sign up for a free account and your games pay.
How you earn coins
- Your first finished game gives you 1,000 coins.
- Every game pays at the card's values: 10 coins for every cent. A hand worth 25 cents pays you 250 from each player who pays. When you lose, you pay the same way, but your coins never go below zero.
- Your first game each day adds a bonus of 100 coins for each day in a row you have played, up to 700 on day 7.
- Every third win in a row pays that game twice.
- Each lesson you finish pays 300 coins, once.
- A friend you bring who finishes a game pays you 2,000 coins.
What you can spend them on
In the shop, coins buy this month's faces, frames, tile backs and table cloths, with new ones every Sunday, the faces, frames and cloths of a holiday set while it is on sale, and trophy cases. None of it changes how the game plays. Prices start at 2,000 coins and go up to 100,000.
Sets
- Garden: collect all 6 pieces and you unlock Jade Garden cloth, which can't be bought.
- Night Market: collect all 6 pieces and you unlock Lantern Festival frame, which can't be bought.
- Dragons: collect all 7 pieces and you unlock Imperial dragon and Imperial frame, which can't be bought.
- Halloween 2026: collect all 8 pieces and you unlock Jack-o'-lantern, which can't be bought.
- Thanksgiving 2026: collect all 7 pieces and you unlock Golden cornucopia, which can't be bought.
Numbered editions
Some items are made in a set number of copies, and each copy carries its number. Numbered editions need an account, and an account that has finished a few games on more than one day.
What you can only earn
14 trophies, 7 certificates, a few frames and every set's reward are earned by playing. None of them can be bought.
Keeping your coins
Coins, levels and trophies are kept on your account, on every device you use. Guests play, but keep nothing.
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Coins are for fun at the school. They can't be bought, sold or turned into money.
Jade
Jade is the school's other currency. You buy it, and it buys any piece in the shop all year: the faces that move, the special jokers and flowers, tile designs, win effects and sounds, and the packs. Each pack holds a piece sold only in that pack, and every piece in it is shown before you buy. Jade is kept with your account, so you sign in before you buy it.
Jade can't be turned back into money, sold, or given to another player.
Questions
How do I earn coins at Mahjongg School?
Your first finished game gives you 1,000 coins. After that every game pays at the card's values, 10 coins for every cent, and you pay the same way when you lose. Your first game each day adds a bonus that grows with your streak, each lesson you finish pays 300, and a friend you bring who finishes a game pays you 2,000.
Can I buy coins or turn them into money?
No. Coins can't be bought, sold or cashed out. You earn them by playing and learning, and you spend them in the coin shop.
What can I spend coins on?
This month's faces, frames, tile backs and table cloths in the shop, with new ones every Sunday, the holiday sets while they are on sale, and trophy cases. None of it changes how the game plays.
What does Jade buy?
Any piece in the shop, all year, and the packs. Each pack holds a piece sold only in that pack.
What does an account keep?
Your coins, levels, trophies and shop items, on every device you use. Coins are paid to accounts only.
What are numbered editions?
Some items are made in a set number of copies, and each copy carries its number, like 37 of 100. Once they are gone they are gone.