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The main purpose of tile calls is to push hands forward and reduce the number of [[shanten]]. However, kuikae doesn't reduce the number of shanten, as the tile to discard can make a group with the tiles used for calling to form a [[mentsu]]. This kind of behaviour is usually not recognized to be "meaningful" to the player himself/herself, but as a way to "disturb" other players, e.g. utilizing kuikae on purpose to eliminate [[ippatsu]] or [[Haitei raoyue and houtei raoyui|haitei]]. More and more people agree with it and then the kuikae rule becomes popular today. | |||
Note that kuikae is not always meaningless to the player himself/herself. The use of kuikae often includes: | |||
# Skipping a chance to draw to prevent drawing a dangerous tile near the end of a [[Kyoku|round]], especially when in [[tenpai]], due to the [[Tenpai#Ryuukyoku|noten penalty]]. | |||
# Changing the end of a shuntsu (as shown in Example 1) to obtain yaku, especially [[tanyao]], [[Sanshoku doujun|sanshoku]], [[chanta]], [[Ikkitsuukan|ittsu]], etc. | |||
Some rulesets only forbid discarding the called tile, but allow discarding the other end tile of a chii (e.g. [[Japan Professional Mahjong League|JPML A]]), therefore it sometimes can be a useful strategy. | |||
== Circumventing Kuikae == | |||
With certain complex tile shapes, it is possible to make kuikae-like tile calls without violating the kuikae rule. For example: | |||
# Player has in hand: {{#mjt:123456p}} | |||
# Left player discards {{#mjt:4p}} | |||
# Chii is called to form {{#mjt:4'56p}} | |||
# {{#mjt:1234p}} are left over. | |||
## {{#mjt:4p}} cannot be discarded on the same turn due to kuikae; however, | |||
## {{#mjt:1p}} is not connected to {{#mjt:56p}}, and can be discarded immediately. | |||
If {{#mjt:1p}} was the only [[yaochuuhai]] in the hand, the hand now acquires tanyao. This would not have been possible if the player called chii with {{#mjt:23p}} to form {{#mjt:4'23p}}, in which case discarding {{#mjt:1p}} would be forbidden by kuikae. | |||
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