DailyPlay Mahjong, Rikivo Numbers, and Rikivo Words are now listed in the DLE Directory. Mahjong is from GreatGamesNetwork ApS. Both Rikivo games are from LGW Innovation Ltd. None of the three requires a sign-in. The useful question is whether you want to pair tiles, place numbers, or spell a route.
DailyPlay Mahjong is a shared tile stack
DailyPlay Mahjong deals the same 144-tile layout to everyone that day. Pair free tiles until the board is empty. A tile is free when nothing sits on it and at least one side is open. Most tiles match their identical copy. Season tiles match any other season, and flower tiles match any other flower, so those pairs are the easy openings.
There is no timer. Undo is allowed. A new layout arrives at midnight, and earlier days sit on a calendar. This listing is not Mahjong Tide. That is a different daily on its own site.
Choose Mahjong if you want a longer board you can walk back through when a pair closes a column you still needed. It is the slowest of these three when the stack is dense, and the one where a greedy match can leave two copies buried.
Rikivo Numbers is a 1-to-16 path
Rikivo Numbers fills a small grid with 1 through 16, each number once. The shade of the square you leave tells you how far the next number belongs: white is one step, light grey is two, dark grey is three. Moves go horizontally or vertically, never diagonally. The last number is already shown in bold, so the path has a finish line even before the first empty cell is filled.
Today’s Puzzle is the shared daily. Practice puzzles sit beside it. A streak and a timer sit on the page; neither is required to finish.
Choose Numbers if you want a short logic session and you like knowing the next step is a distance, not a hidden digit. It is the tightest of the three: sixteen cells, one route, and a clear last tile.
Rikivo Words connects clues on the same grid language
Rikivo Words keeps the shaded distances and the orthogonal moves. The job changes. You complete the word clues in order and use every letter tile once. The last letter of one word is the first letter of the next, so the route is one chain rather than sixteen numbered stops.
Today’s Puzzle is the shared daily. Practice puzzles sit beside it, the same way they do on Numbers. Difficulty is marked on the page. Easy is one of the labels, not a promise about every later day.
Choose Words if you want the Rikivo movement rule plus a vocabulary clue. It is closer to Numbers than to Mahjong. The extra friction is naming the words, not clearing a stack.
Which daily game should you try first?
Start with Rikivo Numbers if you only have a few minutes and you want a path you can finish or restart. Start with Rikivo Words if the same movement rule sounds better with clues attached. Start with DailyPlay Mahjong if you want a board that can last, and you are willing to undo a pair that looked free.
The two Rikivo games share a publisher and a shade code. Mahjong does not. A tile stack, a numbered path, and a word chain are different evenings even when each one resets once a day.
FAQ
Are DailyPlay Mahjong, Rikivo Numbers, and Rikivo Words updated daily?
Yes. DailyPlay Mahjong posts a new shared layout at midnight. Rikivo Numbers and Rikivo Words each have a Today’s Puzzle. Practice boards on Rikivo are extra; they are not the shared set.
Do these daily games require an account?
No. All three open in a browser without signing in. DailyPlay offers optional sign-in if you want progress on another device.
Is DailyPlay Mahjong the same as Mahjong Tide?
No. Mahjong Tide is a different daily on mahjongtide.com. DailyPlay Mahjong is its own shared 144-tile layout on dailyplay.com.
Are Rikivo Numbers and Rikivo Words the same game?
No. Both use shaded distances and orthogonal moves. Numbers fills 1 through 16. Words connects a list of clues so that the last letter of one word starts the next.
Conclusion
If you want a tile stack you can pair down, start with DailyPlay Mahjong. If you want a 1-to-16 path, start with Rikivo Numbers. If you want that path with words attached, start with Rikivo Words. The next daily will change the layout, the numbers, and the clues. It will not mix the three jobs.