Daily Puzzle
Daily Mahjong Puzzle #27
Difficulty: Easy
- Seat wind: West
- Round wind: East
- 3-faan minimum
- 36 tiles left in the wall
- Your turn 12
Your handYou · West
- Flowers
- Discards
The other players
Left · South
- Discards
Across · East
- Discards
- Flowers
Right · North
- Discards
- Flowers
What would Sifu discard?
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Sifu discards
Five of Characters
Discard 5 Characters · keeps 2 waits (8 left)
Moves you to ready, waiting on 5 Bamboo, 8 Bamboo (8 left).
Sifu's reasoning
The 5 Characters is a spare copy: another 5 Characters already sits in your 5-6-7 Characters run. Without it you are ready: 3 complete sets, a pair of 4 Bamboo, and a two-sided 6-7 Bamboo, waiting on 5 Bamboo or 8 Bamboo (8 left). Only a self-draw reaches 3 faan here. The tempting choice is the 7 Bamboo you just drew, but it leaves you 1 step from ready instead of ready. Before anything else, look for the discard that makes you ready.
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The discards Sifu weighed
Five of CharactersBest
Moves you to ready, waiting on 5 Bamboo, 8 Bamboo (8 left).
Six of Characters, Seven of Characters, Six of Dots, Seven of Dots, Eight of Dots, One of Bamboo, Two of Bamboo, Three of Bamboo, Four of Bamboo, Six of Bamboo, Seven of BambooWeak
Sifu's tile makes you ready; yours left you 1 step from ready.
