Section II: Setting Up for Mahjong
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Overview
Before play begins, there are a few steps involved in properly setting up. In addition to physically setting up the tiles, the seating arrangement of the players is randomized, the dealer is determined, and the tiles are distributed randomly. At any one time, both the Table and each Seat are assigned one of the 4 Winds. For the first round of Mahjong (4 hands, or after each player has been dealer once), the Table wind is East, and for the second round the Table wind is South (second 4 hands in a game, for a total of 8 hands per game, subject to extension in certain circumstances). The dealer sits in the East seat, and each player's seat is determined in relation to the dealer by counting, counterclockwise, East-South-West-North starting with the dealer (note that they are not in the order of the compass). For convenience of explanation, this process has been broken down into the following steps: |
