Terminal tiles and honors are (usually) safer, so it's nice to keep them to have a safe tile to discard when the table becomes dangerous. Here, it makes little difference, but discarding the 8-dot before the 9-dot is still better according to game theory. For the "illusion of Tan Yao", it don't mak...

I'd go with either 8-dot or 9-dot, as pointed out earlier Itsu scores the same as San Shoku (although might be slightly easier to read, if we're left waiting for Bamboo) but is more flexible if the yaku fails to materialise. Given my lack of Mahjong knowledge, is there much behind discarding the 8-d...

Seems like a pretty conclusive response! tsumogiri for me. Here's hoping for third place!