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San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by Ignatius » Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:22 pm

New day, new question.

It is posible to mix the San An Kou with San Kantsu if the three Kans are all concealed?

I saw it once, and I´m wondering if was a wrong Han counting.
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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by WorTeX » Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:22 pm

Uncommon situation, but it\'s valid san ankou, if the three kongs are concealed.

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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by Ignatius » Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:14 pm

Oh, thank you very much!
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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by azn86.jedi » Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:59 am

I do believe that if all 3 ankan are declared (ie you reveal them) the sanankou and sankantsu yaku are still valid as well.

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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by chalwa » Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:10 am

azn86.jedi wrote:I do believe that if all 3 ankan are declared (ie you reveal them) the sanankou and sankantsu yaku are still valid as well.
I dont think so, as "an" means hidden, conceald, when you have 3 kantsu melded their name is "minkan" - melded kantsu, so they cant be "ankan" - hidden kantsu. as they are not "an", they cant be counted as sanankou yaku which requires 3 "ankou" (also these can be changed to "ankan"), but you cant say that minkan is counting as ankou.

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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by Ignatius » Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:18 am

I´m with Chalwa, the Koutsu (A.K.A.concealed Pon) need concealed Kan (Kantsu) to be added to the San An Kou.
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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by Shirluban » Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:47 am

azn86.jedi wrote:I do believe that if all 3 ankan are declared (ie you reveal them) the sanankou and sankantsu yaku are still valid as well.
Your use of the word "declared" is confusing.

You have a concealed kan when you draw yourself the 4 tiles.
You have a melded kan when you draw 3 tiles and claim the 4th, or when you expose a pon and draw the 4th (this is a promoted kan).

In either way, the kan is declared (you said you have it) and revealed (you shown it).


If you have 3 concealed kan, you count sanankou (3 concealed pon) and sankantsu (3 kan).
If you have 3 melded kan, you count only sankantsu (3 kan).
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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by azn86.jedi » Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:10 am

i apologize for the confusion in my post. i probably meant that if you had 3 concealed koutsu and you so happen to draw the respective tiles to make all three of them concealed kans which in turn you declare and reveal (am i getting this right, Shirluban?) you are allowed both sanankou and sankantsu. I suppose one would be crazy enough to do that if they want to try for rinshan kaihou...

Ignore me if I still haven\'t gotten that right >__<

I suppose as well it\'s slightly different matter if your hand was in suuankou tanki tsumo (4 concealed pons waiting on the draw to complete the pair)

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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by Shirluban » Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:02 pm

You are right.

When you have a yakuman you don\'t count other yaku since your score is limited to yakuman.
If the local rule allows multiple yakuman, you sum up \"only\" yakuman and not the lowers yaku.


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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by Referee » Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:21 pm

azn86.jedi wrote:i probably meant that if you had 3 concealed koutsu and you so happen to draw the respective tiles to make all three of them concealed kans which in turn you declare and reveal (am i getting this right, Shirluban?) you are allowed both sanankou and sankantsu. I suppose one would be crazy enough to do that if they want to try for rinshan kaihou...
Been watching Saki lately? ;)

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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by Referee » Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:34 pm

azn86.jedi wrote:i probably meant that if you had 3 concealed koutsu and you so happen to draw the respective tiles to make all three of them concealed kans which in turn you declare and reveal (am i getting this right, Shirluban?) you are allowed both sanankou and sankantsu. I suppose one would be crazy enough to do that if they want to try for rinshan kaihou...
Been watching Saki lately? ;)

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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by azn86.jedi » Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:06 pm

Alright Ref, you caught me :woohoo:

I did watch Saki a while back, which rekindled my interest in mahjong in general. I said before somewhere else that I usually play some variant of Singaporean mahjong with friends, but Saki was what got me interested in Riichi / Japanese mahjong in the first place.

been playing this japanese flash mahjong game at gamedesign.jp as practice for both gamewise and hand score calculating... Am proud to say i got rinshan kaihou a few times. It\'s one VERY rare yaku, i have to admit.

<-- just ordered a Sango set from Dave Hurley\'s site :cheer:

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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by Barticle » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:34 am

azn86.jedi wrote:i got rinshan kaihou a few times. It\'s one VERY rare yaku, i have to admit.
It\'s pretty rare but far from being the rarest.

Looking up the match log stats from Tenhou I printed last year, here are the ones that occur least frequently...

0.326% Rinshan Kaihou (after a kong)
0.197% Daburu Riichi (double reach)
0.152% Shou San Gen (little three drags)
0.096% Honroutou (all terminals & honours)
0.063% San Shoku Doukou (triple pung)
0.057% Chankan (robbing the kong)
0.055% Ryanpeikou (twice pure double chow)
0.007% San Kantsu (three kongs)

That last one is more rare than half the yakuman hands!

In contrast, the top of the yaku list is Riichi which occured in 45.7% of winning hands.
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Re:San An Kou and San Kantsu

Post by azn86.jedi » Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:21 pm

ahaha good stats. it still has less than a 1% chance of happening... that\'s rare enough for me XD

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