Number
of players: 4
Type of Dominoes Used: Double 6
Type of Game: Blocking
Game
What's unique: Each hand that is won
counts as one game, and a match ends when a team has won at least 10
games.
4 players play as 2 teams of 2
players per team.
Number of dominoes drawn: Each player draws 7 tiles.
If there are any remaining tiles after the draw, they are discarded, not
used during that hand because there will be no drawing from the boneyard.
Set domino: Player holding the 6-6 makes the first play with that tile.
After a tile has been set, play continues to the left.
How to play: Each player tries to match the pips on one end of a tile
from his hand with the pips on an open end of any tile in the layout. If
a player is unable to match a tile from his hand with a tile in the
layout, the player passes his turn to the player on his left. Each
player may play only one tile per turn.
The first player to get rid of all dominoes announces
"Domino!" and wins the game. If none of the players can make a
play, the game ends in a block. If a game ends in a block, all the
players turn the tiles in their hands faceup, count the pips on each
tile, and add them together. The player with the lowest total wins the
game.
Set Variations: 1) highest double, and in
the event no double is drawn, re-shuffle and re-draw; 2) 6-6, and in the
event the 6-6 is not drawn, re-shuffle and re-draw; or 3) highest
double, and in the event no double is drawn, play the highest single.
Other rules: The game can be played with no spinners (which seems the
most often used rule) or by using the first double as the only spinner
of the game.
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