Re: Dora after Kan

Tom Sloper wrote:
> That can't be right! You are showing the dead wall as seen by the West
> player (with the dora indicator two stacks from the very end of the dead
> wall). For the East player, the dora indicator would be the third tile from
> the left. Follow me so far?

This way?

wallwallwallwall xxxxdxx
wallwallwallwall xxxxxxx

> So you see, this firmly shows that the 4th kan MUST be the final kan. No
> more kan dora! No more replacement tiles! After the 4th kan:
>
> ddddd
> xxxxx

This makes much more sense to me.

> As for additional tiles being added, one of my Japanese books shows that
> they ought to be added to the left side, only when a complete stack has been
> used up [...]

Next weekend or the other, a Japanese will join our group for a game. I 
will ask him then.

> Possibly the author of your French instructions saw the table practice long
> ago, or in a part of Japan where the described practice is/was used, or
> misunderstood. 

I found other mistakes (for instance, the toriyaki marker is called the 
"hole", « le trou », definitively not right) so I think those French 
instructions are not so good. To bad there's no books about Modern 
Japanese Mah-jong published in English.

Thank you very much for your help.