Beginners benefit by placing all the matched tiles on the left side and all the unmatched tiles on the right. By doing so, a player can easily identify what is in the hand and thus avoid accidentally discarding a matching tile. As a courtesy, players always play with their right hands.
2.5 Matching the Tiles (Jo Pai)
The tiles are matched in an exchange process. The exchange process begins with the Dealer, who discards the first tile from his or her hand of 14. Moving counterclockwise, each player takes a turn drawing a tile from the remaining walls and discarding the least desirable tile from his or her hand. The least desirable tile could well be the one just drawn from the walls. Alternatively, instead of drawing a tile from the walls, a player can claim a tile discarded by another player, that will go toward making a matched set. Thus, a matched set can be assembled by using only the tiles in the playing hand or by claiming a tile discarded by another player. In any case, by retrieving a tile to replace the one immediately discarded, each player always keeps 13 tiles in his playing hand. Through this exchange process, the players try to rid themselves of their undesirable tiles in order to put together a winning hand. The same procedure is continued until one player matches all of the tiles in his or her hand.
In some Chinese mah jongg games, not all the tiles on the remaining walls are available for drawing. In the Cantonese Game, there will always be 14 tiles that are untouchable at the tail ends of the walls. In the 16-Tile Game, the number of untouchable tiles is 16. But in the Shanghai Game, every single tile is available for drawing.
2.6 Claiming a Discarded Tile
2.6.1 Sheung – To Match a Sequence
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