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Marathon achievement in Microsoft Mahjong (Windows)

Marathon

Come back each day of an entire month and complete at least one Daily Challenge

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How to unlock the Marathon achievement

  • mynameisbrmynameisbr
    29 Sep 2016 24 Sep 2016 18 Jan 2023
    Simply come back each day of a month, starting on the first, and complete at least one puzzle each day. You will need to do this each day of the month.

    If you're starting this after the first of the month, then you can set your date back to the first and complete one puzzle. After that you need to close the game and then set the date for the second of the month. Open the game back up and complete another puzzle for that day. Repeat this until you get to the day that you are on and then finish it normally for the rest of the month.
    This method can be used on any day of the month, so if you start the game on the last day of the month, you could unlock it the same day.

    SOLUTION UPDATE

    If you want to go for it the fastest way, set your computer calendar back to the 1st of a month you have not completed any challenges in. Complete a challenge, close the game, and set the date to the 2nd. Work all the way up to the final date of that month, in order. When the final date's challenge is complete, the achievement will unlock.
    I'd recommend doing it in a February as that's the shortest month of the year.
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    x meltiger xIt should be pointed out that if you start the month and miss a day - If you don't realise and play another day - The counter will reset and there is NOTHING you can do to get it to recount it. Even the date change method (Which does work as described in the solution) will not re count the day - It seem you are perma locked out.

    I missed the 18th, have tried multiple times to go back to the 1st and do one day by day but it will simply not count the 18th day.

    The safest thing to do if you are intending to use this method is don't touch the game till the last day of the month & then follow the guide.

    Realistically if you miss this when doing Perfection and have to use the solution, it should take under an hour if done on the last day of the month. Score attack and Match attack are so easy to complete on EVERY difficulty no one should have any trouble doing this quickly.
    Posted by x meltiger x on 31 Oct 16 at 04:22
    Shadow KisuragiI didn't have any issues with completing the month, after missing a day. I posted this on the Solitaire solution, but it's actually from my experience with Mahjong:

    I had no problems setting the date to the 1st, completing a challenge, moving it to the 2nd, completing a challenge...all the way to the 31st of the month and unlocking the achievement for the current month.

    If you already have progress, and miss a day, you can recover your streak. Start from the beginning of the month, and wait for your data to sync. Once that has completed, load up the Daily Challenges, and back out. Go to Achievements to verify the counter went up 1. Close the game, advance the date, and continue until you reach the missed date, and complete a challenge for that day. Streak restored.
    Posted by Shadow Kisuragi on 04 Nov 16 at 19:32
    DavehxMine is saying 31/31 but not popping. I've restarted the program a couple of times to get it to resync but no luck
    Posted by Davehx on 31 Dec 16 at 00:52
    GiinceeFebruary is the best month to do this because you only have to do 28 days in a row instead of 30 or 31
    Posted by Giincee on 26 Mar 18 at 10:40
    TheophilosI encountered the same problem that Davehx was having. Something that's not made clear in this solution is that, as of now anyway, if you're doing this by manually setting your computer's time, it appears that you still can only earn this achievement when it is actually the last day of a month. This is unlike the corollary achievement in Minesweeper, which can be earned on any actual day, as long as your device time is set to the last day of the month.

    Another issue that I ran into, and which prevented me from actually earning this yesterday when I was attempting to do so, is this: the program may glitch if you are manually changing dates if you have previously completed all 3 challenges for one of the days. What happened to me was that I had previously completed all 3 challenges for 1/17 through 1/22. I backdated to each day starting at 1/1 and completed the match/score attack challenge on each day. The counter was going up each day through the 18th (the last two days of which I had already completed all 3 challenges on). After completing a challenge on the 19th, no matter how many challenges I replayed, the counter remained at "18/31" and wouldn't budge no matter what I tried (restarting the app, completing each challenge again, failing each challenge). Finally, I gave up, but figured I'd finish out the month to see what happened. When I changed the date to the 20th and started the app, the counter was back to "0/31." Again, nothing I could do would make the counter register my playing. The next day the 21st, the counter started up again, despite my having previously completed all 3 challenges that day previously.

    So the difference between the game's treatment of the previous days on which I had already completed all 3 challenges was attributable to the fact that on the 17th, 18th, and 21st, I had actually played the game on those days and completed the 3 challenges on those days. On the 19th and 20th, by contrast, I had played those on the 21st -- that is, not on the corresponding days.

    Anyway, I hope this is useful to somebody. If you want to complete this with minimal effort, my best advice would be to wait until the last day of a given month before starting, then backdating 31 days, playing a previously uncompleted challenge, close the program through task manager, progressing a day manually, playing a previously uncompleted challenge, etc. I personally will be trying this again on 2/28. I'll let you all know if it works out.
    Posted by Theophilos on 01 Feb 19 at 22:17
    Sparkii ElectraJust to clarify you do not need to wait for the actual end of the month in real time for this to unlock unless you're going for it legitimately. I have just completed this entire achievement on 22nd March, changing the computer's date to 1st-28th Feb in order.
    If you want to go for it the fastest way, set your computer calendar back to the 1st of a month you have not completed any challenges in . Complete a challenge, close the game, and set the date to the 2nd. Work all the way up to the final date of that month, in order. When the final date's challenge is complete, the achievement will unlock.
    This will have no impact on the actual current month's challenges, when you set your clock back to the correct date.
    Posted by Sparkii Electra on 24 Mar 19 at 15:05
    byndfitalityI can confirm what Sparkii Electra said is true. I did the same exact thing and it worked no problem. It took a little over an hour.
    Posted by byndfitality on 18 Jan 23 at 18:31
    mynameisbrSolution has been updated with Sparkii Electra's method.
    Posted by mynameisbr on 18 Jan 23 at 23:55
    RubberSoul1990Got this in February 2023 without coming on each day or doing date changes, I played a challenge on each day in the last week while going for perfection and it unlocked. Same for the five day challenge achievement.
    Posted by RubberSoul1990 on 28 Feb 23 at 10:32
    Kerman7Two observations as I am playing now in 2024:
    1. When I played in January, I was getting credit for playing passed days without changing any system date. I wasn't in a rush and didn't want to play for hours within a few days so didn't check if it would have unlocked but I have the feeling it would.
    2. In February my progress in-game is stating X/30. Given there are only 29 days, it's safe to assume the game is currently not aware February has less days and it is instead the worst month to try this in, as it should be impossible to play for 30 days this month. EDIT: Turns out it's just a display bug like Strive for Perfection and it unlocked fine on the 29th (leap year in 2024), so if you play in February and have a similar experience, do not worry.
    Posted by Kerman7 on 10 Feb at 12:36
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