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===Wait counts===
===Wait counts===
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The waiting patterns can be analyzed using two numbers: '''n-sided waits''' and '''n-tiles available'''.  This counts the number of tile types and the number of tiles themselves.
The waiting patterns can be analyzed using two numbers: '''n-sided waits''' and '''n-tiles available'''.  This counts the number of tile types and the number of tiles themselves.


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==Complex patterns==
==Complex patterns==
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{{main|Complex waits}}


These 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.
These 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.


==Related terminology==
==Related terminology==
=== Hadaka tanki ===
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'''Hadaka tanki''' refers to when a player has made four [[naki|tile calls]] (other than [[shouminkan|added kans]]), meaning that the hand is left with a single concealed tile for completion.  The hand is necessarily tenpai with a tanki wait. Such a hand is very difficult to defend with, because the player will only have two tiles to choose from.  Instead, the player opts for a complete attack posture.
=== Jigoku ===
{{main|Jigoku}}
'''Jigoku''' {{kana|地獄}} refers to a [[tanki]] wait where two of the winning tiles are already visible to all the players. The two copies of the winning tile are either in a discard pool or visible as [[dora]] indicators. In English, this is commonly known as the '''hell wait''', a literal translation of the Japanese.


=== Karaten ===
=== Karaten ===
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