Declaring a Kong

You can declare a Kong on your turn, if you have:

• Four identical tiles in the hand.
• A melded Pung, and the fourth identical tile just or previously received from the Wall or Dead Wall (as a supplement tile).
• If you have unassigned jokers, you must specify tile values for them before declaring a Kong.
• Note that you cannot declare a Kong immediately after a Ready declaration, but depending on the rules it may be allowed on the subsequent turns (e.g., in case of an obligatory ready declaration there are no restrictions on subsequent turns, but rules for a voluntary ready declaration often prohibit changing the hand in any way after the declaration, or allow only concealed Kongs that do not alter the hand).
• Note too that some rules restrict the number of Kongs allowed during a deal. For more information, see the Dead hand rules.

To declare a Kong:

• Click the Kong button on the status bar.
  If your claim is valid, the Kong dialog box appears. Otherwise, a message box informing of an illegal declaration is displayed (but no penalties are applied). If you confirm the declaration, the tiles forming the Kong are zoomed out from the Hand Tiles row and zoomed in on to the Melded Tiles row. In case of completing a Pung to a Kong, the fourth tile is inserted on the Melded Tiles row right after the third tile of the melded Pung.
• After the tiles have been melded you receive a supplement tile from the Dead Wall (unless there are no tiles left in the Wall, in which case the deal ends right after the tiles have been melded).

Note: Four Winds 1.x allowed a player to declare a Kong after having claimed a tile for a Chow or Pung. This is the default option in Four Winds 2, as well. Some rules, however, prohibit a player to declare a Kong in situations like this, but rather restrict the right to declare a Kong to player's own turn only. You can apply this rule option by clearing the Allow Kong after claiming of Pung or Chow box on the General option page under the Rules section in the category tree of the Preferences dialog box. Notice that even if this rule is enabled, you are allowed to declare a Kong, if you claim a tile for a Kong, since in this case you will receive a supplement tile from the Dead Wall and you are no longer dependent on other player's tile.

Related procedures:
Declaring Ready
Declaring Out