Complex waits
These machi involve waits which are infrequent and generally nameless combinations. They are all based on combinations of other basic machi, often in many differnet ways. Often, they 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. This list is not exhaustive and not every possible waiting pattern is included.
2 tile wait
Kanchan with tanki
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3 tile wait
Kanchan with nobetan
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Shanpon with tanki
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Nested shanpon
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Ryanmen with penchan
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Aryanmen with kanchan
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Ryanmen with harabote
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4 tile wait
Quadruple shanpon
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Double entotsu
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Ryanmen with shanpon
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- This is different from the ryanmen with shanpon described by entotsu.
Ryanmen with triple shanpon
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Ryanmen with tanki and shanpon
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Ryanmenten with shanpon
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5 tile wait
Ryanmen with shanpon and nobetan
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Ryanmenten with nobetan
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Ryanmen with shanpon and kanchan
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More than 5 tiles wait
6 tiles
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7 tiles
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This pattern is notable because it has 23 winning tiles, like the chuuren poutou kyuumen machi, but unlike most other hands waiting on 23 tiles, it cannot completed by a hypothetical fifth copy of any tile (a 3m or a 7m would not complete this hand).
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This pattern waits on 23 tiles.
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8 tiles
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This pattern waits on 23 tiles.
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This pattern waits on 23 tiles.
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This pattern waits on 23 tiles.