Topic: San-ren-ko / 三連刻

Just curious as to whether or not anyone is familiar with this particular yaku…I've only seen it in one video game and Google seems to provide little information. It involves having three consecutive sets of three in the same suit, is worth two han (at least as far as I can see) and can be either open or closed. My curiosity has only grown since last Sunday's open play event, because I had the opportunity to get this, and didn't go for it because it isn't present in USPML's current interim rule set. Any thoughts on its validity or potential future inclusion in the rule set?  

Edit: Well I guess kanji don't show up on here…at least for me, anyway.

This is called Pure Shifted Pungs in MCR (which also has Four Pure Shifted Pungs). Zung Jung has Three Consecutive Triplets and Four Consecutive Triplets.

WMFed and EMA Riichi rules do not allow for either of these patterns.

Maybe someone from USPML will write about their plans.

USPML official Rules development is still underway. Rules development has been slow, but it is making progress. The yaku you're talking about is one that is under discussion.

I seem to recall (though this memory is admittedly fuzzy) that when I first learned to play, using the EMA Riichi sheet, this yaku Three Consecutive Pongs did appear there. Now though, the EMA Riichi Rules do not include it.

My personal opinion is against it. It seems to be not very common or standard, and it also has a lot of complications that go along with it (e.g. is the identical-when-closed formation Three Similar Chi also a yaku? do you get to choose which it is? can you use kan in it? etc)

It may well be uncommon, but I don't see any complications. When one goes out, one has to decide and show which sets one has. You either have three consecutive triplets or three identical sequences.

If you've made a kan, then you've already decided. After all, you can't claim both seven pairs and two double runs, and that doesn't seem complicated.