When the game begins, East is the Prevailing wind. Between hands the seat winds will change, see 3.4.11. During a full game, each player plays as East at least two times. Note that the counter-clockwise order East-South-West-North does not correspond to the compass directions. South sits at East's right, West sits across from East, and North is at East's left. Mahjong is played by 4 players, each of which is associated with a wind, indicating the player's seat. Red fives are no longer used in Riichi competition rules. The red fives would than add an additional han to the hand value. The red fives are sometimes used to replace normal fives, so that each suit has one red five and three normal fives. Japanese tile sets often include red fives. Sometimes mahjong sets contain extra tiles: Flower, Season or Joker tiles, which are not used in riichi mahjong. With four of each of the above tiles, a mahjong set consists of 136 tiles. The design of the white dragon varies between mahjong sets usually it is either a blank tile or a blue frame is depicted. The dragons are shown in the order: red-white-green. The winds are shown in the order: east-south-west-north. In addition to the suit tiles, there are seven different honour tiles: four winds and three dragons. The ones and nines are called terminal tiles. The one of bamboo is sometimes decorated with a single bird, the design of which often varies between mahjong sets. There are three suits, each has tiles numbered from one to nine: A full set of mahjong tiles contains 4 identical tiles of each of the tiles below. The 34 basic mahjong tiles are presented here.
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