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Message:: [QUOTE="Shangas, post: 10005035, member: 360"]The chips are used in scoring the game (don't ask me how, I've never met anybody who could explain scoring to me, in 20 years of playing!!). The "round thingy" is the wind indicator. Each round of mahjong is indicated by one of the four winds - starting with East, and moving around the table. Every mahjong set has (or should have) a set of dice, usually 2, sometimes 3. The dice are used to determine who goes first, and who is the dealer for each round of the game. To play a game, you shuffle the tiles, stack them into four walls (if you're doing classical mahjong, that's four walls of 36 tiles each). Then you roll the dice inside the walls to find the dealer. You count the numbers until you hit the dealer, then you use the same number to find the right spot for the dealer to break their wall. So for example, if the dice roll 12, then you count around the table 12 times (going anticlockwise). Whoever '12' is, is the dealer. Then they count along their wall 12 tiles, and break the wall at that point. The tiles before the break are the bonus wall, the tiles after break are where you start dealing out tiles to the other players, or they can take them themselves - it really depends on personal preferences. Some people are real sticklers and insist on doing it "properly", others will just help themselves to tiles.[/QUOTE]