What the discards tell you

Every tile anyone throws stays face up. That is a free look at what they are not keeping.

Thrown by the player on your left

In this lesson: How to read another player’s discards for what they suggest — and do not prove — about the hand they are building.

Almost everyone opens like that. A lone honour is hard to pair, so it goes early from most hands, and it tells you almost nothing about this one.