Complex waits
These machi involve waits hese combinations involve patterns that do not have specific names. Instead, they use combined forms of the other patterns. Furthermore, they mostly consist of consecutive, or closely consecutive, numbered tiles. Recognition of these patterns can produce some significantly powerful waits, which may be immune to suji and have large numbers of waiting tiles.
3 tile wait
Kanchan with tanki
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Double kanchan with tanki
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Kanchan with nobetan
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Shanpon with tanki
Waiting for:
Kanchan with tanki
Waiting for:
Triple Shanpon
Waiting for:
Ryanmen with penchan
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Ryanmen with tanki and kanchan
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Ryanmenten with shanpon
Waiting for: 
Ryanmen with shanpon
Main article: Ryanmen with shanpon
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Ryanmen with kanchan
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- This pattern could also considered as ryanmen with tanki.
Ryanmen with tanki
Main article: Ryanmen with tanki
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4 tile wait
Quadruple Shanpon
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Double Ryanmen
Waiting for: 
Ryanmen with penchan
- Waiting for:
Ryanmen with triple shanpon
- Waiting for:
Ryanmen with tanki and shanpon
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5 tile wait
Ryanmen with shanpon and kanchan
- Waiting for:
Ryanmen with shanpon and nobetan
- Waiting for:
Ryanmenten with nobetan
- Waiting for:
Double Ryanmen with tanki
- Waiting for:
More than 5 tiles wait
6 tiles
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7 tiles
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8 tiles
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9 Tiles
- Waiting for:
- This is the Junsei Chuuren tenpai.
13 Tiles
Waiting for:
- This is the Junsei Kokushi tenpai.
