4.4 Isolated tiles
A tile that belongs to no block is called an isolated tile.
This hand has only four blocks. You need to grow an isolated tile into a taatsu to fill out five blocks.
An honor becomes a block only when a matching tile arrives to form a toitsu. It has only one kind of ukeire.
A 1 or 9 has three kinds of ukeire.
A 2 or 8 has four kinds.
Tiles from 3 to 7 have five kinds.
So you discard honors first, then 1s and 9s, then 2s and 8s, and keep the middle suited tiles.
Discard the isolated tile that should go first.
You picked . It is part of a block.
You picked . An honor becomes a block only when a matching tile arrives.
You picked . Another isolated tile is harder to turn into a block.
Discard the isolated tile that should go first.
You picked . It is part of a block.
You picked . A 1 or 9 has only three kinds of ukeire.
You picked . Another isolated tile is harder to turn into a block.
Discard the isolated tile that should go first.
You picked . It is part of a block.
You picked . A 2 or 8 has only four kinds of ukeire.
You picked . Another isolated tile is harder to turn into a block.
Discard the isolated tile that should go first.
You picked . It is part of a block.
You picked . An honor becomes a block only when a matching tile arrives.
You picked . Another isolated tile is harder to turn into a block.
Discard the isolated tile that should go first.
You picked . It is part of a block.
You picked . A 1 or 9 has only three kinds of ukeire.
You picked . Another isolated tile is harder to turn into a block.