Tips minhwatu

General tips

- Try to capture high value cards, prioritizing the 20-point Bright cards, followed by the 10-point Animal cards. Chaff cards are completely worthless, except when using them to capture non-Chaff cards. (See the Chaffs section below)

- Yakus are not very valuable in this game, so prioritize capturing valuable cards over completing yaku.

Chaffs

Once captured, Chaff cards are completely worthless in this game.

This means that it is usually not a great idea to match two Chaff cards. All cards are divided among the players by the end of the round, so if you match two Chaffs, someone is guaranteed to capture the two remaining (more valuable) cards of the same month, and it is more likely to be one of your opponents who gets them, even in two-player games.

It also means that Chaff cards are safe to discard if all non-Chaff cards of the same month are already captured.