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 * Hand value is primarily based off of your yaku patterns
-=== Strategy ===
+== Strategy ==
+* A wide variety of strategies are employed, regarding building winning hands and avoiding other player's hands
-There are many ways to build a winning hand, some being more difficult and higher-scoring than others. Choosing which type of hand to go for, therefore what to discard each turn. takes judgment. Calling tiles from opponents may speed up the hand, but may make it worth less.
+* Memorization of the [[List of yaku|yaku]] is key
+* Yet, players may continue to play the game simply building hands, without or with limited knowledge of the yaku
-Discarding an opponent's winning tile is costly, because the entire value of the hand must be payed by the discarder. To defend against this, players can try to discard only safe tiles, thus destroying their own hands. Other times, players may decide to ignore their opponents and keep on building their own hands.
 == Learning to play ==