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Game awards	Respectable Roadrunner Rank 10 - 40 jackpot spins Super Swordfish Rank 20 - 145 jackpot spins Meerkat Menagerie Rank 30 - 300 jackpot spins Beautiful Bat Rank 40 Terrified Tex Rank 50 Gift Giver Give 1,000 gifts Matchmaker Make 50,000 matches

Challenge badges	Big Game (5/7/08) Win 3,000 tokens Aardvark (6/18/08) Complete a puzzle in 3 minutes or less 50 times Wildlife Watching (3/25/09) Match 300 tiles Tile Tree (1/27/10) Make 30 5X combos

Premium badges	Flight to the Finish (animated) Play to Win book Complete a puzzle in 4 minutes or less 10 times Wildlife Safari (animated) Take a Trip book Complete a puzzle in 4 minutes or less 40 times Safari Snack (animated) Easy as Pie book Match 200 tiles
Mix & Match	Jumpin' Giraffe EXPIRED Mix & Match (thru 6/16/09) Send 10 gifts Safari Browser EXPIRED Mix & Match (thru 10/13/09) Make 200 animal combos 2008 Christmas EXPIRED (animated badge & icon) Limited Edition Mix & Match (thru 12/26/08) Receive 10 gifts Animal Style EXPIRED Mix & Match (thru 2/16/10) Win 1500 tokens in 30 minutes Ragin' Rhino EXPIRED Mix & Match (thru 3/16/10) Make 25 5X combos Watering Hole EXPIRED Mix & Match (thru 6/7/10) Solve a puzzle in 4 minutes or less 10 times in 3 hours Holiday Safari Mix & Match (thru 12/7/10) Send 12 gifts Winter Safari Mix & Match (thru 1/7/11) Match 700 tiles

Badge tips

Be aware of the 30 minute time limit for Animal Style, the four minute time limit for Flight to the Finish, and the 4 minute & 3 hour time limits for Watering Hole!

Gift Giver and Matchmaker are separate from rank badges, and are earned by completing the tasks described.. or were? They are no longer listed in Game Awards at Badge Central, and for those who have earned them, they now show up as Special Edition badges.

For badges requiring you give or receive gifts, you send a gift every time you complete a "safari" by completing 10 animals on the left side and earning a spin. Gifts are awarded to other players randomly, so playing in less-than-full rooms will increase your chances of receiving them.

For Big Game, be sure to match the animal halves to move you up the status bar on the left side so you can earn spins.

For the Aardvark badge, play on Easy and just work as fast as you can. Use your power-ups, keep clicking while the animal graphics play, try swapping tiles (top left box), and hit New Game if the layout looks too difficult. Be prepared to be there awhile: 50 puzzles at 3 minutes is 2½ hours! Add the time for game transitions, spins and so forth (plus unsuccessful attempts).. but be grateful that they reduced the requirements - this badge was originally published as 100 times!

For badges requiring tokens, you'll earn more by matching tiles that are far apart, making long combos, playing on harder difficulty settings, not using all your power-ups, making combos, for completing puzzles quickly, and for completing a set of 10 animals. You will also earn tokens if you receive a token gift from someone else in the room, but note that gift recipients are selected randomly.

Note that although Aardvark says "3 minutes or less" you don't get credit for games you finish at exactly 3:00.

For Safari Browser, you make an animal combo by matching a pair of animal tiles and then quickly matching another pair of the same animal. To earn this badge, find four free tiles of the same animal, then click away all four.

For Ragin' Rhino or Tile Tree, you make a 5X combo by making an animal combo match (as described above) five times without interruption or mistake. These badges also notes that 10X combos count double, and 15X combos count triple - I assume that means towards badge progress.

Game tips

ALWAYS read a game's How to Play, and also check for a Hints or Tips tab and/or Tutorial. They do help!

Click away tiles by mousing a connecting line between matching tiles through blank spaces. Your path can't make more than two turns.

Matching two Star tiles earns one of three power-ups: Shuffle lets you mix up all the tiles; Long Line lets you match two tiles with more than two turns; and Hint shows an available match.

Matching tiles of two non-identical halves gives you an animal on the left side. Earning ten gives you a jackpot spin. There are two in each puzzle on Easy level, three on Normal, and four on Hard.

For faster ranking, you can hit New Game after matching the halves to get the special animals on the left side.

More about Mahjong Safari

This game was released in March 2008, and replaced Animal Ark Mahjong.

Gameplay is similar to Mahjong Garden and Mahjong Garden Deluxe.

The 2008 Christmas Limited Edition badge can no longer be earned.

Thanks to sov6plus2 and Tired_Cat for additional Mahjong Safari tips!

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