Concealed Kong

Learn how four hidden matching tiles become a kong.

Concept

Four concealed matching tiles can become a kong.

A concealed kong starts with four identical tiles in your concealed hand. On your own turn, you can draw a tile from the wall, then declare the kong.

Even though it started as concealed, you must announce it and expose it in your open melds area so the table can verify it. After exposing your Kong, you need to draw a supplement tile from the dead wall to keep your total tile count at 13. You must expose a Kong for it to count as a meld.

Visual example
Concealed hand
Four identical concealed tiles
Rule in plain English

Declare it.

Four identical concealed tiles are not automatically a kong until declared.

Interactive check

Which group can be declared as a concealed kong?

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Takeaway

A concealed kong starts from four identical tiles in your own hand.

Declare it before drawing the supplement tile.