Exhaustive Draws
In plenty of occasions, a hand ends with all tiles drawn and the 14-tiles in the dead wall remain. Yet, no player wins the hand. This is the exhaustive draw. In this case, points may be exchanged barring any tenpai hands vs nōten hands. After each exhaustive draw, the counter increases by one.
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