Thanks. I believe our confusion was caused by her not mentioning that a player draws a replacement tile from the wall after making a Kong. She was teaching us a bastard version of Filipino Mahjong, dumbed down for a group of senior Anerican women. She dumbed it down so far that she had play moving c...

My group are learners. The person "teaching" us says it is okay to discard when completing mahjong, but I don't understand how a player could have 14 tiles if they discard one.