Do you ever discard when declaring a win?

[p.boyce]

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.

[or2az]

You do NOT discard when declaring a win.
The 14th tile that you get is your winning tile that completes your hand.
For example, you have in your hand 13 tiles,
.
When you get the or , it completes your hand, you call either ron or tsumo, and you win.
No discard.
Welcome to the forum.

[Shirluban]

Hello and welcome.

Completing a mahjong hand ends the game, so you do NOT discard.
What variant are you learning?

I've only heard of one single rule in the world where play continues (Sichuan Bloody Rules), but I've never found any clear and complete description of it.
And even then, the winner stops playing, so it seems implied they don't discard either.

[p.boyce]

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 clockwise instead of counter clockwise. I have already erased those rules from my memory banks!

[Lxa_]

The complete description of Sichuan Bloody Rules can be found here: http://mahjongpictureguide.com/pdf/SBR-Reference.pdf

And of course, the winner does not discard. In Sichuan Bloody Rules, the winner:
- says "hu"
- turns their standing tiles face down
- takes the winning tile and places it face up either on the left, right or in the middle of their face down tiles to indicate the player who dealt in (similarly to how you meld a pung or kong)
- in the case of tsumo, the winning tile is placed face down together with the winner's face down tiles
- and if there are still at least two non-winner players remaining, the game continues with the next non-winner player in turn drawing a tile from the wall.

[Shirluban]

Thanks.