i fallowed the tutorial to the letter, but i can't get my commands to work, what's going on?

Can you show your game, so that we can take a look and figure out what's wrong?

When you have a problem, we can figure out what's wrong a lot more quickly if you can show us:

1. The code that isn't working
2. How you tested it (eg. what you typed as the player)
3. What should happen
4. What actually happens (error message? nothing? game freezes?)

Just go to code view and copy paste the code here. Or you can get an account on imgur, take sceenshots, and paste the links here.

Here is what I learned about Commands that helped me a lot :

There are 2 places to create commands.

1. In the MAIN command list. (this effects all game rooms)
2. inside a specific room. (this effects only in that one room)

You may need to select an "if" commands.
e.g. If player is in room... or If object has flag
Then you can add another command below it :
e.g. If player is not in room... or if object is does not have flag

This lets you sort problems/errors that can happen if your commands don't seem to work.
The If object has/doesn't have flag is a very easy logical way to sort complex problems and fix issues.

I had the same problem and was about to chime in but found I hadn't switched from message to expression.