Naki: Difference between revisions

'''Naki''' {{kana|鳴き}} are legal claims on immediately discarded tiles.  The instant a discarded tile is declined for a claim, then it goes out of play and remains in the discard pile until the next hand.  Discarded tiles gives players another source of tiles for hand completion, other than the regular wall.  Upon claiming a discard, the player's hand is then considered to be '''open'''.  As a consequence, the player loses the option to call [[riichi]], and the hand is not eligible for the yaku, [[mentsumo]] among other closed only yaku.  Yet, some yaku allow the use of open hands, but they [[#Kuisagari|decrease in value by 1-han]], when opened.