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What is a wall game in American Mahjong?

Definition

A wall game is a hand that ends with no winner because the wall ran out, and in which no money changes hands.

Most groups keep the same East and redeal. Wall games are common at tables chasing difficult concealed hands.

Read the full guide: Dead Hands and Wrong Mahjong Calls: What Happens Next.

See it on real tiles: the coach reads any hand and names its direction, free, at the free read. Members get the coach on call for their own games.

More terms: Pung, Kong, Quint, Pair, Charleston, Blind pass, Courtesy pass, Joker.