Each player receives a group of tiles. Other players cannot see the pictures facing her.
You don’t need to know what any of this is yet.
Come sit beside us. We’ll begin with the objects on the table, show you what one player does, and explain every new word before we use it.
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TilesSmall decorated pieces. They do the job that playing cards do in a card game.
RackThe stand that holds one player’s tiles.
CardA printed menu of the combinations that can win this year.
Middle of the tableWhere unwanted tiles are placed face-up.
The whole idea, before the vocabulary.
You take one new tile, look at what you have, and put one tile you do not want into the middle.
Your tiles must exactly match one combination printed on the annual card.
One ordinary turn has three small moments.
The formal words are useful—but the action comes first.
- 7Take one new tile.
Players call this drawing a tile.
- ••Look at what you have.
Decide whether the new tile helps you move toward a combination on the card.
- 3Put one tile face-up in the middle.
Players call this discarding a tile.
If you were confused at a real table, nothing went wrong.
Experienced players compress several actions into a few words and move quickly because the rhythm is familiar. We will slow it down without talking down to you.