During the planning stage, an
mahjong 247 extra step happens after The last preliminary activity is to make the "Kong Box", some of the time known as the "Dead Wall". Beginning from the break in the wall, and this time counting hostile to clockwise, the initial six heaps of tiles, making a sum of fourteen tiles including the free tiles, are isolated marginally from the rest of the wall. These tiles are the Kong Box and are involved solely to give substitutions to Flower, Season and Kong announcements.