Alice's Magical Mahjong comments:

By: Tara Miller

Tara Miller — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:44:49 -0400

I thought this game was really fun. I did find it to be relatively easy though. Maybe a good beginner Mahjong. I do love Mahjong though, and I will most likely play it through again. Thank you for adding it to giveawayoftheday.com! < ..........................Moderator comment..................... Thank you for your feedback Tara. Have you tried the four player version of Mahjong? I used to play it virtually every day as a teenager and even purchased an expensive set with bamboo and resin pieces Hong Kong Mahjong is one version of the four player game that I know of that allows you to play the traditional four player variety of Mahjong. There is also a free online version which you'you can play via your browser. Just follow the link: http://www.y8.com/games/hongkong_mahjong There's also a free downloadable version from a well respected abandonware site http://www.myabandonware.com/game/hong-kong-mahjong-pro-309#download You'll need to play the abondonware verion via DOSBox {probably} You can get a beautifully crafted commercial version of the game from Ninedragons software (I purchased a copy back in June 2008, now they do three versions, one for net books, one for average screen monitors and laptops and one for large screen PC's. It's quite expensive for an arcade game (£14.73 or approx $22), but in my opinion it's well worth it. The computer opponents A.I. (artificial intelligence) is excellent and you can also play it with human players or a combination of human and computer opponents. You can even input your own picture into the game, so that your position in the game is shown by a picture of you. :) http://www.ninedragons.com/

By: Anu

Anu — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:55:27 -0400

AAAH sorry - should have been looking better - thanks for the link to My Play City!

By: Anu

Anu — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:52:42 -0400

Oh no - I've been missing this one - any chance to get it somewhere else? .............................Moderator Comment........................ Yes, if you read my review you'll find a link to a free copy over at MyPlayCity (MPC). If you've not heard of MPC before, be careul when installing the game. Make sure you uncheck all the check boxes otherwise you'll find a new toolbar in your browser and everytime you open your browser it will oopen to MPC. When you close any MPC game down itr automatically opens your browser to MPC. This is innocous, just click X to cl;ose your browser and its done. :)

By: kris

kris — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:48:15 -0500

to moderator and Delilah at 49 : Delilah found the solution !! It was indeed at the caterpillars I got stocked, and after clicking the leftcorner caterpillar at first, all the rest continued smootly and I'm now in the following Mahjong. Thanks to you both, for the attention and solution!! ......................Moderator comment.......................... That's good news Kris, glad you got it sorted. Thanks again to Delilah for coming up with the solution. :)

By: Muftwale

Muftwale — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:11:42 -0500

Similar to @3 NIckys problem. Here the message is unable to connect. Doesnot work even after disabling firewall & Antivirus. The problem has started since last couple of days (GOTD) & now the same one resurfaces here. Used to work fine earlier( 4-5 days GOTD, Last GGOTD downloads) with both firewall+ antivirus turned on. Any suggestions ..........................Moderator comment......................... Make sure Internet Explorer isn't offline. Click on file and look to the bottom of the drop down menu where it says work offline. Make sure that isn't checked. Even if you are using Firefox or another browser, you still need to make sure I.E. is set to work online. If that isn't the problem, check the FAQ's which I link to in my reviews. You may find other solutions there. sorry this was too late for Saturdays game. That said, if you managed to download the game, sometimes you can still activate them an hour or so after the giveaway has ended.

By: Lee C.

Lee C. — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:02:29 -0500

Hi, Its a nice game. Nice graphics and layout, still near beginning of game. Its a bit simple, but good for younger ages and family game. It did stall out on me a couple of times, but I'm using an old computer. I'm looking for a newer one soon. Wish I knew what is the best at a reasonable price for graphics and games etc. Thanks once again for a great site and games!! ..........................Moderator Comment...................... Thank you for your feedback Lee. Post in the forums re buying a computer. you'll get loads of advice as to what to do. It really depends on what type of games you want to play and how much you are prepared to pay. for example I love open world games with beautiful graphics, consequently I paid a lot of money for two graphic cards (around a thousand pounds just for the cards) so that I could max out the visuals on such games. That said, if your not intending playing the latest version of ArmA III (once it's out of alpha and beta), or games like Crysis 3, Dead Space 3, the latest Tomb Raider game or Battlefield 3, you don't need the most up to date computer. Most of those games I've mentioned above still play on my four year old 3.2 GHz Athlon dual core with an old NVIDIA GTX 275 graphics card and 6 GB of RAM; I can't max out the graphics, but they still play and look pretty good. You can pick up a second hand computer with those specs for around £50 to £80 via e-bay (that's if you don't mind second hand). After my son destroyed his computer a few months ago (I'd only built it for him six months ago) I decided, rather than rebuild it (he burnt out the motherboard and possibly the cpu as well) I was going to purchase a second hand one via ebay, then swap the guts to his new computer, which has a nice looking case with lots of cooling. I noticed there were hundreds on sale, virtually one every few minutes, and the prices were extremely good. I even saw a relatively up to date computer with an i7 c.p.u. and decent gaming motherboard going for just over £100. It lacked the peripherals such as keyboard and monitor and had no graphics card, but the motherboard alone would have cost over a hundred pounds to purchase. You can pick up some brilliant bargains, especially if you don't mind purchasing a part build. Computer are very easy to build; basically plug in and play. :) There are hundreds of tutorials on how to build them on you tube covering every aspect building a computer and virtually every component released (i.e. different motherboards, cooling systems, power supplies c.p.u's etc).

By: Mac

Mac — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:39:38 -0500

This game is so darn relaxing that you could play a few rounds before going to bed! The colours are pleasant, the music is soothing, and it's not timed or diabolically tricky --very nice, and Playrix's usual high quality. If you don't like the HOG elements, choose "Classic" mode to skip them; and there is an option in the Play screen to light up free tiles, if you want to make it even easier. Thanks, Playrix and GGOTD for this keeper; and, of course, Whiterabbit for the great review! ..........................Moderator Comment...................... Thank you for your feedback Mac. :)

By: Delilah

Delilah — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:30:44 -0500

@21 kris: I got stuck on one of the HOG levels where you have to find 5 caterpillars, and the game recognized that I'd found all 5, but it wouldn't let me continue. (Spoiler alert!) The problem seemed to be the caterpillar in the lower left corner: it's too close to the menu icon, but when I clicked a little further away, like maybe on the caterpillar's antennae, then it worked. Also, I did that caterpillar first, so I didn't have to keep doing all 5 of them and still getting stuck. Hope you haven't given up & uninstalled the game! ............................Moderator comment......................... Thank you for the feedback Delilah. :D

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:21:52 -0500

This kind of game is why I check Give-a-way every weekend. 5-Stars

By: Jan sen

Jan sen — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:23:58 -0500

Stephen is royal envoy 2 being given away on any of these other sites? GGOTD has been dancing around it for 2 years now[giving away all the playrix titles BUT that one] I bought v1 and it was given away 3 days later. don't want to repeat that. ...........................Moderator comment......................... Hi Jan sen I don't know if Playrix intend to give away Royal Envoy 2. It's not available on any of the free game sites yet. I've done similar when the project first started back in 2006 when we got games every day. I must have purchased at least 10 games that were then given away via the giveaway project. :(