Quick answer
A Consecutive Numbers hand is built from runs of numbers in sequence within a suit, such as a stretch from three to seven, arranged into the pungs, kongs and pairs the card asks for.
How to recognise it in a deal
The deal shows it as a cluster of neighbouring numbers in one suit with few gaps. If you can lay four or five tiles in a row from one suit, count that first, because a run can start from more than one place and forgives a bad draw better than any other shape.
Consecutive Numbers in the glossary, or have your own deal read free to see which direction it favours.
9 dealt hands that went this way
Each one is a real deal, read tile by tile. Reading several in a row is how the shape stops being a card section and starts being something you recognize on your rack.
September 10 (4 in a row in bams, early, keep options open)
September 3 (4 in a row in craks, promising, needs shaping)
August 11 (5 in a row in dots, early, keep options open)
August 6 (3 in a row in dots, early, keep options open)
July 23 (5 in a row in craks, promising, needs shaping)
July 20 (4 in a row in dots, promising, needs shaping)
July 15 (3 in a row in bams, early, keep options open)
July 8 (4 in a row in craks, promising, needs shaping)
June 21 (4 in a row in dots, early, keep options open)
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