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July 3rd, 2009
You have just been dealt your first hand in a game of Mahjong (Chinese Official International Rules).
You are East, and the wind of the round is East. You are first to act.
Which tile would you discard?
Mahjong is a four-player game played with tiles. It has some similarities with some card games, such as Rummy. The goal is to form a winning combination by discarding and drawing tiles. Contrary to other classic games like chess, backgammon and go, there is no common ruleset for mahjong. Actually there exists a wide variety of rules, and a winning strategy in one of them would be a loosing one in another.
This site deals exclusively with the Chinese Official International Rules, by which the World Championships of Mahjong are played.