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Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called pips or dots) or is blank. The backs of the tiles in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design.
Mexican Train. Mexican Train is a game played with dominoes. The object of the game is for a player to play all the tiles from his or her hand onto one or more chains, or trains, emanating from a central hub or "station". The game's most popular name comes from a special optional train that belongs to all players.
Muggins is part of the Fives family of domino games whose names differ according to how many spinners are in play. Muggins is the game without a spinner, Sniff and modern All Fives have a single spinner, and, in Five Up, all doubles are spinners. [2] However, historically Fives or All Fives was the progenitor of the family and had no spinners.
Wang tiles (or Wang dominoes), first proposed by mathematician, logician, and philosopher Hao Wang in 1961, are a class of formal systems. They are modelled visually by square tiles with a color on each side. A set of such tiles is selected, and copies of the tiles are arranged side by side with matching colors, without rotating or reflecting them.
A game of Chicken Foot in progress. Chickenfoot or Chicken Foot, also called Chicken-Foot Dominoes and Chickie Dominoes, [a] is a Block domino game of the "Trains" family for 2 to 12 players invented by Louis and Betty Howsley in 1986. [1] Chicken Foot is played in rounds, one round for each double domino in the set and is best for 4 to 7 players.
A game of 42. 42, also known as Texas 42, is a trick-taking game played with a standard set of double six dominoes. 42 is often referred to as the "national game of Texas". [1] Tournaments are held in many towns, [1] and the State Championship tournament is held annually in Hallettsville, Texas on the first Saturday of March each year. [2]
Draw or "the Draw Game" is one of the two basic forms of the game of dominoes, the other being "the Block Game," [3] and "most characteristic domino games are elaborations of it." [4] It gives its name to the family of 'draw games'. Initially each player draws seven tiles from a double-six set. The first player places a tile on the table which ...
Triangular Dominoes. Triangular Dominoes is a variant of dominoes using equilateral triangle tiles, patented by Franklin H. Richards in 1885. Two versions were made: a starter set of 35 unique tiles, with each side numbered from zero to four pips, and an advanced set of 56 unique tiles, with each side numbered from zero to five pips.