Gifts, badges and your zen garden
Everything you collect in Yila Mahjong is earned by playing. Gifts arrive daily, badges are permanent, and the garden has fixed prices, no timers and no random pulls.
How do the daily gifts work?
You get one gift a day from a 7-day calendar, and a missed day never resets it. You continue where you left off, and after day 7 the cycle repeats.
| Day | Gift |
|---|---|
| 1 | 20 coins |
| 2 | 30 coins |
| 3 | 40 coins and 1 hint |
| 4 | 50 coins |
| 5 | 60 coins and 1 shuffle |
| 6 | 80 coins and 1 undo |
| 7 | 120 coins, 2 hints and 1 shuffle |
When today's gift is waiting, the game opens straight onto the calendar.
What badges can I earn?
There are 16 badges, and they are permanent: once earned, a badge is never taken away.
| Badge | How to earn it |
|---|---|
| First Steps | Clear your first board |
| Getting Cozy | Clear 10 boards |
| Regular | Clear 50 boards |
| Century | Clear 100 boards |
| Climbing | Reach level 10 |
| High Peaks | Reach level 25 |
| Daily Debut | Clear a daily challenge |
| Three in a Row | 3-day daily streak |
| Weekly Devotion | 7-day daily streak |
| Flowing | Reach a x5 combo |
| In the Zone | Reach a x8 combo |
| Perfect Clear | Earn 3 stars on a board |
| Unassisted | Clear a board without hints, shuffles or undos |
| Swift | Beat the par time on a board |
| Ten Thousand | Lifetime score reaches 10,000 |
| Gardener | Place your first garden ornament |
Free automatic rescues do not count against Unassisted.
What is the collection book?
It is one screen with two tabs that shows what you have earned. Badges lists the earned and locked badges with a count. Album shows the tile bodies you own or wear, and the face sets.
The book says it plainly: "Everything here is earned by playing, never a random pull." For the looks themselves, see tile sets.
What is the daily goal?
It is a quiet pill on the home screen that reads "Clear 3 boards today". Clearing the third board pays 40 coins automatically.
It is information only: never a lock and never a countdown. Replaying a daily you already scored today does not count toward it.
How does the zen garden work?
It is your own garden with 8 plots. You spend coins you earned on 8 ornaments at fixed prices, and each ornament is unique and placed once.
Tap a placed ornament to move it to any empty plot, free, any time. There are no timers, no random pulls and no paywall. The garden says it itself: "Fixed prices, earned coins, never a random pull, never a timer."
| Ornament | Price (coins) | In the game |
|---|---|---|
| Bonsai | 150 | A patient little tree in a glazed pot |
| Zen Stones | 200 | Three stones, perfectly balanced |
| Lotus Bloom | 250 | A quiet flower on still water |
| Stone Lantern | 300 | Its light has warmed many evenings |
| Bamboo Fountain | 400 | Clack... the sound of time passing |
| Red Maple | 500 | Crimson leaves in every season |
| Koi Pond | 650 | Two koi circle each other, unhurried |
| Stone Pagoda | 800 | Five tiers of mossy stone |
All 8 ornaments together cost 3,250 coins.
The garden backdrop and ornament pictures were made with an AI image model, then cleaned up.
How do coins work?
You earn coins by playing and spend them at fixed prices. Coins cannot be bought with real money, and there is no real-money purchase anywhere in the current build.
Where coins come from
| Source | Coins |
|---|---|
| Every level you clear | 20 coins |
| Every star (1 to 3 per board) | 10 coins |
| Daily streak bonus, paid when you clear the daily | 5 coins times your streak |
| Clear 3 boards in a day (daily goal) | 40 coins |
| Daily gifts | 20 to 120 coins |
Where coins go
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Hint booster | 30 coins |
| Shuffle booster | 40 coins |
| Undo booster | 20 coins |
| Tile skin (Midnight Jade, Sakura or Deep Ocean) | 300 coins each |
| Garden ornament | 150 to 800 coins |
New players start with 50 coins, 3 hints, 3 shuffles and 5 undos. The Shop also has an opt-in reward button that grants 2 hints and 1 shuffle. No ad network is connected yet, so in the current build that button grants them straight away without showing an ad.
The Shop puts it this way: "Boosters are earnable with coins from normal play, never a paywall." Read the full promise about ads and scores.
Want to start your garden?
Day 1 of the gift calendar is 20 coins, and the First Steps badge is one cleared board away.