kokushimusou (thirteen orphans)

[or2az]

This is the 1st time I have seen this in a game I was playing.
Unfortunately, it was scored against me....and I was East.
I was defending against a riichi by West with a safe tile he had discarded previously and then South suddenly.......oooh, that hurt!
Fortunately, I had a big lead and was able to recover and go on to win the match.
Good thing it wasn't that thirteen-sided wait which may have been a double yakuman.

Sometimes I get this mixed up with that optional Shiisan Pūtā (which I have actually gotten twice) but I believe those thirteen unrelated tiles have to be in a starting hand. Still, it was nice to see.

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[Ignatius]

32,000... Ouch.

[Referee]

A Yakuman is always painful when you have to pay it in full. Somewhere in this forum there has to be a video of a game of mine in Tenhou being busted out (I was already in last) by kamicha on "kan, kan, tsumo" yielding a kazoe yakuman only by virtue of three kan-dora.