Accelerating the pace of the game

If the tile animation seems too slow, try to adjust the speed by using the Animation settings on the General option page under the User Interface section in the category tree of the Preferences dialog box. If none of the settings work, you should disable the tile animation altogether.

Disregarding the Animation settings (and the Discard delay setting specified on the Gameplay option page), you can bypass these settings in certain situations by clicking anywhere on the game board:

• Release a discarded tile immediately. Normally the discarded tile stays visible in the discard slot during the time specified by the Discard delay setting. Clicking on the game board immediately removes the tile from the discard slot. If another players claims the tile, the melding starts immediately. If no one claims the tile, the tile is immediately placed amongst the discarded tiles and the next player in turn is given a new tile.
• Discard your new tile immediately. In the end game, when you have most of the sets completed and are waiting for a particular tile, you can quickly discard a new tile without moving the mouse cursor by right clicking anywhere on the game board.
• Bypass the animated deal. If the Show Deal command on the Options menu is checked, the tiles are dealt incrementally in sets of four according to the traditional method. By clicking on the game board, you can bypass the animation and complete the deal.
• Bypass the animated turning of the tiles. When the tiles are turned face-up or face-down as a consequence of the Show Tiles command on the Options menu, or as a result of one of the players declaring out, you can bypass the animation by clicking on the game board.

Notice, that the game messages (e.g., your opponents’ declarations) are shown in a message box by default. You can accelerate the game by defining, that most of the messages are shown in the message line, instead. To show the messages in the message line, remove the check mark beside the Show Messages command on the Options menu. The setting is saved as a new default for this command.

Tip: The mouse and keyboard operation described here is based on the default configuration. You can customize the game controls for the basic events like discarding, claiming, undo and acceleration. For more information, see Configuring game controls.