Your first real round

This is class ten. I'm going to be quieter today than you've heard me in any other class. And there's a reason. Everything I've shown you so far has been a little bit rigged. I stacked the wall, I scripted the bots, I made sure you saw the thing I wanted to teach. Tonight's different. The wall is shuffled. The bots play for themselves. I'm just here to watch you play a round of real mahjong.

Okay, here's how today works. I'll speak in three situations, and only three. If you freeze for more than fifteen seconds, I'll check in quietly. If you're about to do something I think you'll regret (like throwing a tile someone just pong'd from the same suit), I'll say one word. And when the round ends, I'll walk you through what happened. Otherwise, I'm silent. You're playing. I'm watching. Ready?

That was a real round. Whatever just happened (win, loss, draw), it counts. I'm going to walk you through two or three moments from what I just watched. Not because you did anything wrong. Because I want you to see your own play from the outside, the way I was seeing it.

Here's one moment from the round I want you to see again. Watch seat west's tempo carefully this time.

You have learned enough to play. The basics are yours: the tiles, the turns, the pongs and the sheungs, the first taste of scoring. This is the first real round of your life. Play it. Win it or lose it, whatever happens. When you come back, I will show you the rest: the big hands, the rare patterns, the numbers behind every win. But right now, I want you to go and play, learn from what happens, and come back when you are ready for more.

Two things have just unlocked for you. First, in your lobby: a new button. Invite players. You can now create a private table and send invitations to other humans. That's Play mode, and it's the whole point of this game. Second, Class eleven is now open, along with every class after it, all the way to seventeen. Come back to any of them whenever you're ready. The basics you have are enough to play. The rest is enough to play WELL. Go when you want. Come back when you want.

Class ten complete. Basics arc complete. Classes eleven through seventeen are waiting whenever you're ready.