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CHAPTER VIII.

ROUND WIND AND SEAT WIND

There are four rounds of play and four games in each round, unless East, or the Eldest Hand, Goes Out, in which case he will remain East until some other player wins a game.

Each round is called by the name of one of the directions. The first round is the East Wind Fight, or the East Round, the next is the South Round, then the West Round and the North Round.

In the East Round, the East tiles are always Bonus tiles, that is, any one of the four hands that has a Pon of East tiles in the East Round, and Goes Out, receives a Bonus. In the South Round, the South tiles are Bonus tiles, followed, in the same way, by those of West and North.

A Pon of the Seat Wind gives a Bonus to the player sitting in that seat, if he Goes Out. That is, if a player, sitting in the South Seat in the East Round, has a Pon of South tiles and Goes Out, he receives a Bonus,

When the Round Wind and the Seat Wind are the same, the Pon of that Wind gives a double Bonus. For example, if a player in the South Seat makes a South Pon during the South Round, and Goes Out, he receives a double Bonus.

The Bonuses will be explained later.