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A player with a tenpai hand is furiten if at least one of the conditions below applies.
A player with a tenpai hand is furiten if at least one of the conditions below applies.


Players in furiten may not win by ron, even if they have a yaku. Declaring ron while in furiten is penalized with a [[Chombo|chombo payment]].
* Players in furiten may not win by ron, even if they have a yaku. Declaring ron while in furiten is penalized with a [[Chombo|chombo payment]].
* Players in furiten may still win by tsumo.
* After [[riichi]] declarations, all discarded tiles after the riichi discard may apply to furiten.
* A player may pass the opportunity to declare ron and is subject to furiten until the next turn to draw/discard.


Players in furiten may still win by tsumo.
The furiten rule does not consider [[yaku]]. Sometimes, a hand can be completed with several tiles, but only some of them provide a yaku, others would produce a yakuless hand. If a yakuless tile appears, it must be ignored, because a winning hand must contain a yaku. The player must remain temporarily furiten.


=== Discard-based furiten ===
=== Discard-based furiten ===


A player is furiten if in his discard pile, there is a copy of any of his hand-completing tiles. It does not matter whether this tile would have provided a yaku or not. Tiles turned sideways within open melds are considered part of their discarder's discard pile.
A player is furiten, if a winning tile is present in one own's [[discard pile]]. It does not matter whether this tile would have provided a yaku or not. Tiles turned sideways within open melds are considered part of their discarder's discard pile.


As long as the player has not declared [[Riichi|riichi]], they can get out of furiten by altering their hand and waiting on other tiles.
As long as the player has not declared [[Riichi|riichi]], furiten can be avoided by altering the hand and changing [[Machi|tile waits]].


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=== Temporary furiten ===
=== Temporary furiten ===
The ability to declare ron and win a hand is an optional call.  Instead, a player may decline the call to win.  By declining this call, a player opts to resume play rather than choose to win the hand at that specific time.  Upon doing so, The player is then temporarily furiten, until the next tile draw.  Some rules additionally cancel temporary furiten on any [[naki|tile call]] by any player.


A player who has not declared riichi may also ignore a hand-completing tile and not call ron on it. Again, this may have been a discarded tile or the tile for a shominkan.
A player who has not declared riichi may also ignore a hand-completing tile and not call ron on it. Again, this may have been a discarded tile or the tile for a shominkan.
The player is then temporarily furiten. This lasts until his next own draw. Some rules additionally cancel temporary furiten on any tile call, i.e., chii, pon, or kan, by any player.
The furiten rule does not consider [[yaku]]. Sometimes, a hand can be completed with several tiles, but only some of them provide a yaku, others would produce a yakuless hand. If a yakuless tile appears, it must be ignored, because a winning hand must contain a yaku. The player must remain temporarily furiten.


== Strategy ==
== Strategy ==
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