Daily Puzzle
Daily Mahjong Puzzle #43
Difficulty: Medium
- Seat wind: South
- Round wind: East
- 3-faan minimum
- 37 tiles left in the wall
- Your turn 12
Your handYou · South
- Flowers
- Discards
The other players
Left · East
- Discards
- Flowers
Across · North
- Discards
Right · West
- Discards
- Melds
- Flowers
What would Sifu discard?
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Sifu discards
Red Dragon
Discard Red Dragon · keeps 2 waits (3 left), safe vs West
Keeps you ready on 2 Dots, 5 Dots (3 left). The next best tile left 0. Safe against West too.
Sifu's reasoning
A pong of the Red Dragon you just drew would score, but the other three copies are already out. Without it you stay ready: 3 complete sets, a pair of 5 Dots, and a two-sided 3-4 Dots, waiting on 2 Dots or 5 Dots (3 left). Many players would throw the 5 Dots from your 3-4-5 Dots run, but it leaves no winning tile at all instead of 3. Ready is not the end: pick the wait with the most tiles left.
The discards Sifu weighed
Five of Characters, Six of Characters, Seven of Characters, One of Dots, Two of Dots, Three of Dots, Four of Dots, Seven of Bamboo, Eight of Bamboo, Nine of BambooWeak
Sifu's tile makes you ready; yours left you 1 step from ready.
Five of DotsWeak
Sifu waits on 3 tiles; yours on 0.
Red DragonBest
Keeps you ready on 2 Dots, 5 Dots (3 left). The next best tile left 0. Safe against West too.
