Enabling or disabling hints

To enable or disable hints:

Choose Preferences on the File menu.
Choose Gameplay under the User Interface section in the category tree of the Preferences dialog box.
Check or clear the Hints box.

The hints include:

Hint on tile to be discarded. When it is your turn, you can display suggestion for the tile to be discarded by choosing Hint on the Game menu, or by pressing CTRL+H. The quality of the hint is determined by the strategy selected for the human player on the Players option page in the Preferences dialog box.
Note: If you have four complete sets and a pair, the current scoring for the hand is displayed on the status line. This is useful information, if there is a minimum point requirement for the winning hand. Notice too, that if the hand is a valid winning hand, no tile is lifted as a suggestion for discard. This is a simple way to guarantee that you won't make faulty declaration of Out.
Hint on valuable hands and patterns. You can have the computer suggest hands and patterns worth collecting while using the Hands tab of the Game Manager. Right click the list of the special hands and choose Suggest collectibles from the pop-up menu. The suggested hands appear in bold.
Number of times a particular tile has been played. If you have checked the Show discards box on the Gameplay option page (under the User Interface section in the category tree of the Preferences dialog box), you can count the number a particular tile has been played so far. You can let Four Winds count the available tiles for you by holding down the SHIFT key and moving the mouse cursor over the tiles in your hand. If the tile is a suit tile (e.g., Bamboo 3), the message line displays also the number the adjacent suit tiles (Bamboo 2 and Bamboo 4) have been played.
Available Tiles window. Offers the same functionality as the previous option, but shows the available tiles in graphical form. You can display or hide this window by choosing Available Tiles on the View menu.
Successors of Dora indicators. If you have checked the Dora tiles box on the General option page (under the Rules section in the category tree of the Preferences dialog box), you can toggle the view between the Dora indicators and the actual Dora tiles by right clicking the area of the Dora tiles (either at the bottom of the Wall window or in the Dora Tiles window). The actual Dora tiles are successors of Dora indicators and they are the tiles you must have in hand in order to score bonus for Dora tiles. For more information on the use of Dora tiles, check the help topic Extra and special tiles – Dora tiles.