Sometimes it's inevitable. You build and build and get to the last needed piece and it's two female pieces or two male pieces and you have to get an adapter to convert one of the sides.
But I've finally figured out (duh) that if you start building something from two different ends, say try to build a rounded square and you start the left side and the right side independently, and then try to just bridge the top and bottom of the square together at the last moment, you are guaranteed to get two matching ends which you don't want (I guess you could call them mismatched, as well, right?).
I've done it before, and it's worth it just to undo the second side (after, you've now got them equal lengths and have all the right pieces out, so all isn't lost) and flip the pieces to continue what you're doing from side one and voila, all of a sudden the exact same pieces now end in the correct male/female scenario.
Another common thing that causes mismatched ends is the mountain tunnel bridge that has male ends on both sides of the overpass. One side is going to need an adapter and the other side will be fine. You just need to sequence it so that you don't need an adapter on a curve, although I have found curved adapters....but that's another post!
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