Wanpai

Wanpai (王牌) are the tiles used to form the "dead wall". These tiles are set aside from the regular draw and discard play. These are generally inaccessible, unless players call kan. Here, the dead wall house the dora-indicators. At all time, the dead wall must be maintained at 14 tiles. In the event of a kan call, a tile is drawn by the player, and so a replacement tile from the end of the regular wall is added to the end of the dead wall.