Quick answer
A Like Numbers hand is built around one number repeated across the three suits, such as pungs or kongs of the same number in craks, bams and dots.
How to recognise it in a deal
Three or four copies of a single number spread across suits is the strongest signal a deal can show. Count your most repeated number before anything else; jokers help here because the sets are pungs and kongs.
Like Numbers in the glossary, or have your own deal read free to see which direction it favours.
29 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 13 (3× the number 1, early, keep options open)
September 9 (3× the number 1, promising, needs shaping)
September 6 (4× the number 3, promising, needs shaping)
September 4 (4× the number 9, promising, needs shaping)
September 1 (3× the number 1, promising, needs shaping)
August 28 (3× the number 4, promising, needs shaping)
August 26 (4× the number 6, promising, needs shaping)
August 24 (3× the number 9, promising, needs shaping)
August 18 (3× the number 2, early, keep options open)
August 13 (4× the number 1, promising, needs shaping)
August 12 (3× the number 3, early, keep options open)
August 8 (3× the number 9, promising, needs shaping)
August 7 (4× the number 2, promising, needs shaping)
August 5 (3× the number 5, promising, needs shaping)
August 3 (3× the number 3, promising, needs shaping)
July 31 (4× the number 3, promising, needs shaping)
July 30 (3× the number 6, promising, needs shaping)
July 26 (4× the number 9, promising, needs shaping)
July 22 (3× the number 7, promising, needs shaping)
July 19 (4× the number 3, promising, needs shaping)
July 11 (4× the number 2, promising, needs shaping)
July 10 (3× the number 4, promising, needs shaping)
July 7 (4× the number 1, promising, needs shaping)
July 5 (4× the number 8, promising, needs shaping)
July 2 (3× the number 1, promising, needs shaping)
June 30 (3× the number 4, early, keep options open)
June 29 (3× the number 5, promising, needs shaping)
June 23 (3× the number 4, promising, needs shaping)
June 18 (5× the number 9, promising, needs shaping)
Other categories
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