自風 (Jikaze) - the seat wind designations for each player.

Seating can be determined by a variety of methods. The simplest is to

Shuffle the wind tiles face down.

Each player take one.
   
The wind chosen is their seat wind.

	西家
北家		南家
	東家

• 東 (Ton) - East
• 南 (Nan) - South
• 西 (Shaa) - West
• 北 (Pei) - North

	対面
上家		下家
	You

• 下家 (Shimocha) - player to the right
• 対面 (Toimen) - player across
• 上家 (Kamicha) - player to the left

Tiles are shuffled and turned face down. Each player gathers 17 tiles in rows and then places them one on top of the other.

It is customary to join the corners of the wall as follows:

If your table is even smaller, you can also use this arrangement:

Player east rolls two dice and counts counter-clockwise starting with himself as 1, south 2, west 3, north 4, etc (See table below).

Player Indicated	# Rolled (2 dice)
East	5, 9
South	2, 6, 10
West	3, 7, 11
North	4, 8, 12

The player indicated rolls the dice and the sum of this roll and the dealer's will be added. East counts from the indicated player's right to his left the total sum of the rolls. He takes the next two stacks.

After determining the wall break, players must take two stacks of tiles (4 tiles in total) clockwise 3 times each.

Then the dealer drills two tiles, and all other players one, as shown in the image below.