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SAFE TILES & GENERAL DEFENSE
or "How do I keep this lead now?"
or "How do I stop fucking everything up by dealing into someone else?"

Quick Primer on the Suitnames I'll use:
Man: Numbers
Pin: Circles
Sou: Bamboo
White, Green, Red: Dragons (Haku, Hatsu, Chun in that order)
Ton, Nan, Sha, Pei: East, South, West, North Winds in that order (this is also the Turn Order for the seats etc. in bastardized Sino-Japanese, don't question it)

There is BOOKS on this topic, all things I say here are yours to try out, explore, learn more about, develop, re-analyze after the game where it let you down.

A quick word about "Safe" Tiles:
The only 100% safe discard is what someone else discarded that round. EVEN IF someone is tenpai for that tile, if he didn't call the other one, he WILL be Furiten for your discard until it's his turn again.
That said, what you CAN do is evaluate each players risk level for a rule of thumb. This goes too far into Mahjong but for instance someone was discarding Bamboo and Circles all game and now suddenly throws his first Number and declares Riichi, you KNOW the fucker MOST LIKELY (!!!) has a Hon-Itsu or Chin-Itsu and waits on Honors or Numbers.
What you can then also do is discard any tile he already threw - you can NOT, in NO CIRCUMSTANCE, Win _FROM ANOTHER PERSON_ with a tile you already discarded that round. That is called Furiten a.k.a. Bronze Room's delight, is impossible in Mahjongsoul (until Masters anyways) and IRL will cost you -8000 (-12000 as Dealer) Points in "Chombo" as it is a misplay.

That's the technical side.

Since one image is not enough, we will look at one of my logs.
https://mahjongsoul.game.yo-star.com/?paipu=200428-39c62f01-bf01-4507-849a-6c7245f6e5e0_a924999570

South 3 and 4 are the easiest for me to explain. The situation is I am in a comfortable lead in Gold Room and can already see me getting sucked off by my Jongfus for this ridiculously lucky round, so spirits are high. I am dealer in South 3 with a lead, which means I either have to win high to kill someone or stall until the game is over, in which case you need luck for the first one and skill for the second, so of course I went for the first because you know me - retarded.

So South 3 starts boring with a shitty hand and I actually for once recognized the pain will start in Turn 14 which is where I draw the Pin 2.
You see three calls on the right (Shimocha), two calls on the opposite (Toimen) and nothing at all on the left (Kamicha).
What we now know is that the Kamicha actually was ready with Pin 3-4 so waiting for the Pin 2 I just drew, but I didn't know that in that situation.
What we DO see though is that shit is dangerous all around, and the Pin 2 actually connects to my Pin 3, I have 3 Pairs (Pin 5, Sou 3 and White) but the Sou 3 connects to the Sou 2 and Sou 4-5 each so I don't think of it as a Pair.
Still, that's one pair too many, and seeing as we are in Turn 14 already with only 18 tiles remaining in the pond, I better start defending.
Looking at the discards now reveals there is only a single White left which I don't know where it is. To win off a White you either have it as a Pair waiting for the third or as a single wait, both highly uncommon in Gold (but cheeky). And I already see one. So the odds that someone waits for White is LOW, which is why I discard it.

Turn 16 you see me give up and discard Sou4 instead of the South, which I suspect the Toimen might wait for having called West and some Pin already.
Turn 17 has the Man 3 which is already discarded by everyone else - the best situation. Perfectly safe to discard.
At the end of Turn 17 my fears actually materialize as the Toimen now IS Tenpai on South. Kamicha calls it as well and keeps his South, going so far as being Tenpai in a single wait on that.
Turn 18 I discard the Pin 3 which was discarded by the Shimocha just before, so it was also a safe bet.
I end the round as the only idiot not being Tenpai, which is actually the best outcome here.

Cont next post where we talk about the desaster that was South 4 for me.