Mahjongg Solitaire -are there cheats?

[s179976m]

How are people reaching 100,000 points and higher?  The AARP tips provided do not help much. Are there work arounds? I just want to know so I can stop feeling bad about not reaching such high scores. Thank you.

[s179976m]

I am posting an update on my interaction with Arkadium regarding Mahjongg Solitaire. They did appear to be responsive and instituted a filter for ultra high scores. I hope they continue. I also noticed other things about the game and wonder if anyone else has had similar experiences with the game?
1) It seems the layouts are more difficult during the mornings and most of the day; and

2) The layouts do not appear random.

[s179976m]

So, last week Arkadium posted a score of over 400,000 and then 2 million on the AARP mahjongg solitaire game site!  I contacted Arkadium and they say they are going to do something...some day...maybe. And then again tonight there was a post of 177,000.  Scores up until a week or so ago were hovering around 100,000.  The users posting don't exist. This type of hacking should not be tolerated by AARP, let alone Arkadium. Please complain to AARP since Arkadium doesn't seem motivated to screen fake users and score posters.

[s179976m]

 UPDATE:  Vladimir and Olga at Arkadium Support did remove some of the excessively high scores. However the leaderboard changes frequently.  I have suggested they screen for people that report over a high number such as 125000. We will see.  I also reported to AARP.  No response.

[Ssenkoto102356]

I I truly believe those high scores are fakes and I hate it!!  AARP should do something about it...hopefully someday.

[geranium16]

I think the scores are fakes...maybe just to keep us playing to see if we can beat them,  I believe AARP gets paid for each game played,

[s179976m]

see my reply to my post.  They are fakes and Arkadium could institute controls, but hasn't.

[Fwtm16303012]

I don’t believe those scores are real, look at their names?! 
I just enjoy playing the game myself, don’t care and don’t look what they post as top scores.  
Relax and have fun.

[s179976m]

yep.  Only became worse.

[MeganJ290103]

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@s179976m wrote:

yep.  Only became worse.

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This is the most rigged game on the internet. The company might defend itself by saying it's "math" and there are limitations on what number of chains might be accomplished with a set number of tiles, etc.; BUT, if anyone plays this game long enough, clear patterns emerge that are the shady design of Arkadim.  There, indeed, is a limit on chains on can make. For example, Why are there only 3 chains, usually, on the opening board for the four seasons and there's always a lone singleton season impossible to match and always blocked by a blue, green, or other high scoring tile with, of course, no match for that in sight? Other examples abound but I've wasted too much time already dealing with this game. I may sound paranoid or crazy, but really the tile placement is rigged and if you notice the patterns it's fairly easy to see. Oh and someone mentioned on another thread about how the games get impossible the longer you play in one day and then reset. Yes, they do. Shame on this company for taking advantage of us seniors keeping us on a hamster wheel aiming for impossibly fake scores amid rigged patterns when we already might be insecure about our brain power. (Oh and I still work and otherwise I do have a life....I've waited a long time to post this message but I am fed up and, again think it's a borderline-unethical shame to rig a game like this. Hope you enjoy your ad dollars, Arkcardium/AARP, at the expense of our wasted time!)