Number
of players: 2 and up
Type of Dominoes Used: Any Domino
Type of Game: Blocking
Game
A.K.A. Tiddly-Wink
What's unique: After you play a double, you have the option to play
another tile.
Excellent party game for 3 to 6 individual players. May also be played
by teams.
Number of dominoes drawn: For 2 to 4
players, each player draws 7 tiles. If 5 or more are playing, prior to
the start of the game players should determine and agree upon the number
of tiles each player should draw from the deck. (If 2 players, each
draws 7 or 8 tiles; 3 or 4 players, draw 5 or 6 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: Any domino may be used.
After you play a double, you have the option to play another tile, then
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, unless he plays a double then he
has the option to play again.
The first player to get rid of all dominoes announces
"Domino!" and wins the came. if none of the players can make a
play, the game ends in a block. If a game ends in a block, all the
plavers 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 and earns the points (1 point per pip) of all the tiles left
remaining in his opponents' hands. The player who first reaches 100
points or more is the overall winner.
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. 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.
In most places, Tiddle-A-Wink is
played to 100 points. However, there are many different variations,
including to 50, 150, 200, or 101 points.
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