Number
of players: 1
Type of Dominoes Used: Double 6
Type of Game: One
player game
A.K.A. Twelves
Object of the game: To discard all the
tiles in the set two at a time, in pairs, when pips total 12.
Draw 6 tiles from the deck and place them faceup in a horizontal row in
front of you.
If any two tiles in your tableau together have pips totaling exactly 12,
remove those two tiles from your row and set them aside. Then, replace
them by drawing two more tiles from the shuffled deck. Continue to do
this, and win the game by discarding every tile in the deck.
If the situation arises that there is more than one pair of tiles whose
pips total exactly 12, you may discard each and every pair of tiles
before replacing your tableau with more tiles from the deck.
If a tile's pips can be added to more than one other tile in the tableau
to get a total of 12 pips (for example: a 3-3 can be added to the 6-0 to
total 12, or the 3-3 can be added to the 2-4 to total 12), you may
discard any pair you choose.
Variations: 1) Use a tableau of 5 tiles
for a more difficult game or a tableau of 4 tiles for an even more
difficult game. You may also increase the number of tiles in your
tableau to 7 for an easier game. 2) With adjustments, this game can be
played with a set of dominoes other than the double-6 set. When playing
with a double-9 set, the pips on two tiles in the tableau must total 18
in order to be discarded. The game may be played in this way with any
set of dominoes. Just take the total number of pips on the highest tile
in the set (for example: 6 for a set of double-3 dominoes; 24 for a set
of double-12 dominoes) and that is the number that two tiles in your
tableau must total in order to be discarded.
Variation: In the regular game, the 0-0 and the 6-6, and the 1-0 and the
6-5, must be matched to make 12, because there is no other way to match
them. For the other tiles there are at least two ways each tile can be
matched. Therefore, the 1-6 can be matched with the 4-1, 2-3, or 0-5.
The game becomes much more difficult if you limit more of the tiles to
only one possible match each.
Try this variation: Require that each of the ends of the matching pair
must total six.
The four remaining tiles (0-6, 1-5, 2-4, and 3-3) are tiles with 6 pips
each and cannot be matched to another tile in the set so that the ends
of the matching pair of tiles would total six. Therefore, the
requirement that the ends of the matching pair of tiles total six will
not apply to these four tiles; each of these four tiles may be matched
with any one of the other three tiles to make a total of 12 pips for the
pair, as in the original game.
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