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Break the Wall and Determine the Dora (B)

The Dora indicator, determined in the last step, indicates the Dora


here the Dora indicator is East

The Dora is a special tile that, when used, doubles the score of any hand.

1. The Dora is always the next tile up
from the Dora indicator.
2. What about Nines?

Examples:
If a 9 is the Dora indicator,
the Dora becomes the 1 of the same suit.
Dora indicator



Dora



Dora indicator




Dora





3. The following order applies to the Honors
for the purposes of the Dora indicator:

The Directions



The Colors



4. The previous order repeats, such that





and





Hint : The following mnemonic is useful for remembering the order of the Honors. For the Winds, use the name of a sports channel, but instead of ES*N, think ESWN. For the colors, think the colors of the flag: Red, White and Blue....only it's Red, White, and Green, instead.


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