Combination Waits in Mahjong



Combination Waits (A)

Combination Waits are created by combining 2 or more of the Basic Waits into a single combined Wait. This can create Waits that are ready on three, four, or even more tiles. Let's start with an example:

What tiles are needed to finish this hand?



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Take a look at just the portion of the hand that is incomplete:



With the      it becomes



With the      it becomes



And with the      it becomes



This can be thought of as the combination of the 3-6 of Numbers open wait:


+


and the 6-9 of Numbers open wait:

+


Or, "Open wait + Open wait = 3-sided wait".

In a similar manner, various waits can be combined, given the proper configuration of tiles. As a general rule of thumb, these combination waits become possible when tiles from a single suit are densely packed in close proximity.



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