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'''Tenpai''' is also referred to as the "ready hand". A hand | '''Tenpai''' is also referred to as the "ready hand". A hand is tenpai or "ready" when only one more tile is needed to complete the hand. The completion may be either done by draw and/or discard, where applicable. Tenpai does not require that the completed hand has a yaku, although both a completed hand and a yaku are necessary to win. | ||
Being one or more tiles away from tenpai is called '''noten'''. This word is a contraction of the English '''no tenpai'''. | |||
==Example tenpai hands== | ==Example tenpai hands== | ||
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==Tenpai with no yaku== | == Karaten == | ||
This is a common | |||
'''Karaten''', or '''empty tenpai''', is an exception to the rules given so far. Specific rules may consider an apparent tenpai hand to be noten under the following circumstances. | |||
* All hand-completing tiles are already used within the player's own hand. Declared kans and open melds belong to the hand. If a player has a 1-2 [[Penchan|penchan]] and a previously declared [[Kan|kan]] of 3-3-3-3 in the same suit, no more threes are available as winning tiles. Under most rules, this is noten. | |||
* All hand-completing tiles are visible among declared kans, open melds, discards, and dora indicators. Only some rules have such a large scope for karaten. | |||
== Tenpai with no yaku == | |||
The definition of tenpai does not refer to yaku. | |||
This is a common pitfall for many beginners. Hands are achieved by tenpai. However, due to lack of or limited knowledge of the yaku, players may find themselves building a hand to tenpai but are unable to declare a win. [[Furiten]] may be a case here; but often, this is due to the lack of yaku. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
[[Category:Terminology]] | [[Category:Terminology]] | ||