Excellent answers - thank you! There's a lot to learn in this game. I'm coming from a Eurogame background. I thought THOSE games were complicated!

Baby steps...

I've been going over the rules and can't for the life of me figure this out. When you steal for a pon, for example, why do you position the exposed tiles in a way where players can tell whom the tile was stolen from? Does it affect scoring in any way?

Regards,
Ed