Tatsumaki
| Kanji | 竜巻 |
|---|---|
| English | Tornado |
| Fu | Variable |
| Tile types waiting | 5 sided wait |
| Tiles available | 13 tiles |
Tatsumaki machi 「竜巻」 is a tile wait pattern that uses a combination of ryanmen, shanpon, and tanki waits to create a hand waiting on 5 consecutive tiles in the same suit. This is a particularly powerful waiting pattern as it relies on only seven tiles in the concealed portion of the hand, so even with two called tile groups, the hand can have a 5-sided wait.
Pattern
Waiting for: 
In this example, there is a ryanmen wait for 36p, another ryanmen wait for 47p, and a tanki wait for 5p. There is also an overlapping shanpon wait for 46p.
Fu
This pattern generates 2fu for a tanki wait only if it is won with the middle tile. Winning with any of the four other tiles will not give any fu, as it will be a shanpon or ryanmen wait.
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