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Odd Numbers hands

Hands built from 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. The mirror image of the even hands, and often the direction a deal takes when it holds several ones and nines.

Quick answer

An Odd Numbers hand is built from ones, threes, fives, sevens and nines, arranged in pungs, kongs and pairs across one or more suits.

How to recognise it in a deal

Several ones and nines together, or a rack with almost no even numbers, is the tell. Count by number first and by suit second, because these hands often use two or three suits and a suit-first sort hides them.

Odd Numbers in the glossary, or have your own deal read free to see which direction it favours.

17 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 15 (8 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

September 2 (7 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

August 30 (6 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

August 21 (6 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

August 20 (9 odd tiles, promising, needs shaping)

August 19 (6 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

August 16 (5 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

August 15 (8 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

August 9 (6 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

July 25 (8 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

July 17 (6 odd tiles, promising, needs shaping)

July 16 (5 odd tiles, promising, needs shaping)

July 13 (10 odd tiles, promising, needs shaping)

June 28 (7 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

June 24 (6 odd tiles, promising, needs shaping)

June 20 (7 odd tiles, early, keep options open)

June 15 (6 odd tiles, promising, needs shaping)

Other categories

Consecutive Numbers

Even Numbers

Like Numbers

Winds and Dragons

Pairs Hands

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