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 a signal worth acting on. Count your most repeated number before anything else, and note that jokers help here because the sets are pungs and kongs.
Like Numbers in the glossary, or have a dealt hand read free to see which direction it favours.
39 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.
November 6 (3× the number 5, promising, needs shaping)
October 31 (4× the number 7, promising, needs shaping)
October 25 (3× the number 1, promising, needs shaping)
October 19 (3× the number 1, early, keep options open)
October 13 (4× the number 8, promising, needs shaping)
October 7 (3× the number 9, promising, needs shaping)
October 1 (3× the number 5, early, keep options open)
September 25 (4× the number 6, promising, needs shaping)
September 19 (3× the number 5, promising, needs shaping)
September 17 (3× the number 1, promising, needs shaping)
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)
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