Daily Puzzle
Daily Mahjong Puzzle #15
Difficulty: Medium
- Seat wind: West
- Round wind: South
- 3-faan minimum
- 39 tiles left in the wall
- Your turn 12
Your handYou · West
- Melds
- Flowers
- Discards
The other players
Left · South
- Discards
- Flowers
Across · East
- Discards
Right · North
- Discards
- Flowers
What would Sifu discard?
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Sifu discards
Eight of Characters
Discard 8 Characters · 1 step from ready
1 step from ready with 28 useful tiles. The next best tile kept 25.
Sifu's reasoning
The 8 Characters is isolated: no tile in your hand is within two of it. Without it you keep 3 sets (2 exposed) and a pair of 3 Characters: 1 step from ready with 28 useful tiles. Your faan so far: the South Wind pong (+1), only 1 of the 3 needed. The tempting choice is the 7 Bamboo you just drew, but it keeps only 16 useful tiles instead of 28. Tile efficiency in one line: at equal steps, the most useful tiles wins.
Learn more: Tile efficiency: steps from ready and useful tiles →
The discards Sifu weighed
Three of CharactersWeak
Sifu keeps 28 useful tiles; yours kept 10.
Four of CharactersGood
1 step from ready with 25 useful tiles.
Eight of CharactersBest
1 step from ready with 28 useful tiles. The next best tile kept 25.
Three of Bamboo, Four of Bamboo, Five of BambooWeak
Sifu's tile leaves you 1 step from ready; yours left you 2.
Seven of BambooWeak
Sifu keeps 28 useful tiles; yours kept 16.
