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Double Sixth Festival, traditional Chinese festival; Daimler Double-Six, one of two series of automobile engines, or the cars using these engines; Schläfli double six, two sets of six lines in space with each line crossing five from the other set; Double Six, a race horse that won the Prix de la Salamandre in 1890
Complete double-six set. Dominoes (also known as bones, cards, men, pieces or tiles), are normally twice as long as they are wide, which makes it easier to re-stack pieces after use. A domino usually features a line in the middle to divide it visually into two squares, called ends. The value of either side is the number of spots or pips.
With double-six dominoes, pairs consist of any two tiles whose pips sum to 12. For example, the 3–5 and the 0–4 form a pair. In some variations, doubles can only form pairs with other doubles so that the 2–2 , for example, can only be paired with the 4–4 but this presents a problem with the 3-3 being unpairable.
It is believed that American games using dominoes are descended from the Chinese game Pai gow, which means "make nine" and uses a variant of the double-six domino set, with some duplicated dominoes and omitting the blank values; however, the European double-six domino set was developed, possibly independently, around the start of the 18th ...
Dominoes: All Fives. All Fives features beautiful art, fast gameplay, and solo or multiplayer modes. Expose multiples of five and score! By Masque Publishing. Advertisement. Advertisement. all.
double, doublet, double domino A tile on which both ends have the same pip value e.g. a tile with two sixes is a "double six". [10] double-six dominoes, double-six set, double 6s, double six Domino set made up of 28 tiles with all the combinations from 0 to 6. [1] double-eight dominoes, double-eight set, double 8s, double eight
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The first woman was elected to lead a country 64 years ago. Here’s a look at where, and when, women have secured national leadership positions since then.