12.	General Conditions of Play
12.1	After determining where to start, in accordance with rule 8, the dealer shall deal four tiles to each playing area. The tiles are dealt face down in groups of four to the playing areas, irrespective of whether anyone is seated at that position.
12.2	Where a group of tiles (eight or more) are to be delivered consecutively to empty playing areas, they may be placed collectively in relation to those playing areas and those areas shall be indicated by the dealer.
12.3	When all tiles have been dealt, the dealer shall retrieve the tiles dealt to playing areas without wagers and place them undisclosed in the designated area.
12.4	The players shall arrange their own tiles into two hands - the high hand and the low hand.
12.5	After players return their tiles to the playing area, the hand is considered set and shall not be handled again by players.
12.6	At the request of a player/banker, the dealer shall set that player/banker's hand according to the House way. In such a case, the hands so set will be confirmed by the player/banker.
12.7	Only the player controlling a playing area is permitted to handle and set the tiles.
12.8	Where the provisions of rule 6.6 apply, the player/bankers may jointly decide the setting of tiles.
12.9	The tiles must remain within the table area and in view of the dealer and players may not exchange tiles, or exchange or communicate or cause to exchange or communicate, information regarding their hand or hands.

12.10	Players are not permitted to communicate in any form until after the chung has been removed from the bank's tiles.
12.11	Upon opening and matching each hand the dealer shall declare whether the player has won (Jung), lost (Che) or stand off (Jowl) in accordance with rule 9.
12.12	Stand offs are indicated by the dealer tapping the table twice next to the player's tiles after which the player's tiles are placed in the designated area on the table.
12.13	The players can view any unused tiles only after all payouts are completed. These tiles cannot be handled by the players.
12.14	Where a player is the only person wagering on a playing area he/she may concede his/her wager by indicating with a sweeping motion with his/her hand toward the dealer. The tiles are then picked up by the dealer and placed in the designated area without being exposed and the player's wager is lost and removed. After a player's hand has been conceded it cannot be returned to play.
12.15	The game supervisor may view the tiles of a conceded hand at his/her discretion.
12.16	Where there is only one player playing when the House banks, he/she may expose their tiles face up upon the table.