WWYD Riichi Book I edition
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2024 4:44 pm
In his book, Daina Chiba gives this quiz:
and argues that we should discard
, because the character block is strong enough; I was wondering about discarding
, though: on one hand, it's true this means losing quite a lot of tiles to advance shanten; on the other, as it stands discarding
means a riichi dora hand with a possible bad wait, while discarding
guarantees pinfu (so a better wait), and all simples if one doesn't draw
. Drawing any of
also gives another ryanmen.
I'm not sure if this is worth the drop in speed of losing 8 tiles (out of 20), though; if the premise stands, we are East-1 and are dealer.














and argues that we should discard









I'm not sure if this is worth the drop in speed of losing 8 tiles (out of 20), though; if the premise stands, we are East-1 and are dealer.