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02 · Rack Analyst

Rack Analyst

Point your camera at your tiles, and get a complete strategic recommendation back in seconds — what to keep, what to discard, and how likely each realistic hand is to come together.

Best for: any point mid-hand Uses a scan credit

How to use it

  1. Take Rack Photo

    Lay your tiles out and tap Take Rack Photo. The camera reads every tile's suit and value, regardless of orientation.

  2. Check the rack, fix anything misread

    Your scanned rack appears as a row of tiles. If any tile was misread, tap it to correct it, or use the Tile Drawer Keyboard below to add tiles by hand — this never costs a scan credit.

  3. Tap Analyze Hand

    The app calculates every realistic hand your rack could complete, ranks them by likelihood, and works out the best keep/discard plan for the strongest one.

  4. Read the Target Strategy card

    This names the hand being recommended, explains the reasoning in plain language, and notes any special rule conditions (like whether pungs can be called from other players).

  5. Follow the Visual Rack Guide

    Tiles are laid out in two groups — green Keep tiles and red Discard tiles, in priority order. Discard the top one first.

Rack Analyst screen showing a scanned rack, the Target Strategy recommendation, and the Keep/Discard visual guide.
A completed Rack Analyst recommendation — Half Flush (Honitsu), with keep/discard tiles laid out below.

Reading the probability list

Below the main recommendation, Probability Match of Hand Paths lists every other hand your rack has a realistic shot at, each with its own win percentage. If you'd rather chase one of the alternatives instead of the top pick, tap Target This Strategy on that entry — the whole keep/discard plan updates to match it.

Tip

Use Sort Rack after adding tiles by hand to lay everything out in suit order — it doesn't change your tiles, just how they're displayed.

Seat & Round badge

On rulesets where wind affects scoring, a small Seat: … / Round: … badge appears near the top of this panel, confirming exactly what context is feeding the recommendation below. See the Riichi Setup Guide for how seat and round wind actually change the score.

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Always check the scan before analyzing

Camera-based tile recognition is very accurate, but it isn't perfect — similar suits, tricky lighting, tile angle, or a physically worn tile can occasionally cause a misread. The app has no way to know the scan is wrong unless you tell it, so it will confidently analyze whatever rack it thinks it sees, even if that's not what's actually on your table.

Before tapping Analyze Hand, take a second to read through the scanned row and confirm every tile matches what's physically in front of you. If anything's off, tap that tile to correct it, or use the Tile Drawer Keyboard to add or fix tiles by hand — none of this costs a scan credit, only the original photo does.

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If you started a scan by mistake

Tap Clear to stop any recommendation in progress and reset the screen completely, including your rack.