Defense & Wall Awareness

Reading the table, tracking discards, and not feeding the win

Goal: Learn to read opponents' exposures and discards, identify hot vs. safe tiles, and know when to switch from offense to defense

Estimated time: 13–16 minutes

Prerequisite: Lesson 10

Unlocks: Lesson 12

Why it matters: The hardest game to lose is the one where you hand the winning tile to your opponent. Defense is how you stop being that player.

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Opponents can call tiles you discard. If you throw the one that completes their hand, you pay them double for the win.

Defense is reading the table — watching exposures and discards — so you don't feed tiles to whoever's closest to Mahjong.