Golden Wait

Mahjong Variant	Exposed	Fully Exposed
Chinese Classical	Never	Never
New Style	See Below
Japanese Classical	Rare	Never
HK Old Style	Never	Rare
Guangdong Style	Always	Always
Taiwanese	Never	Always
Chinese Official MCR	N/A	6 "Fan"
Guangdong MCR	1 Point	N/A
Japanese Riichi	N/A	N/A
Let's Mahjong!	N/A	1 Fan
Zung Jung	N/A	N/A

Golden Wait is an incidental win where all chows/pungs/kongs are melded and the player is going for a single pair wait. Concealed Kongs negate this incidence.
This incidence often comes in two distinct types…

1. Exposed Hand, AKA "Golden Wait (Self-Drawn)"
2. Fully Exposed Hand, AKA "Golden Wait (Discarded)", "Melded Hand"

The table on the right shows which variants include which types. Note that rulesets that only recognize Exposed Hand do recognize Fully Exposed Hand, they just reward the same amount of points.

By Mahjong Variant

New Style

Absent from early rulesets, but allegedly appears in later rulesets.

See Also

This incidence is in a group with three other related incidences…

	All Melds Were…	The Winning Tile Was…
Concealed Hand	Concealed	Exposed
Fully Concealed Hand	Concealed	Concealed
Exposed Hand	Exposed	Concealed
Fully Exposed Hand	Exposed	Exposed