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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. [2]
The double was played to return a public train back to private, removing that player's marker [12] The double was the last domino played out of that player's hand, ending the train and the round; [19] however, some rules explicitly prohibit the player from placing a double as the last domino, requiring that it be covered instead. [9]
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.
A Double 12 Dominoes set can also be used with four dice for this variant and other domino sets can be used by themselves to, in the case of the Double 18 set, provide for the use of six dice by themselves without the counting box. Thai style (Jackpot) – Always roll two dice, but only cover one tile matching one of the dice or their sum. For ...
The original All Fives, also known as Cribbage Dominoes or simply as Fives, was described in 1863 and was a precursor to Muggins. It was played with a double-six set, although one description uses double-nine dominoes, and players scored one point for every five pips scored as well as 1 or 5 points for winning. Scoring used a cribbage board.
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Domino tiles. The following is a glossary of terms used in dominoes.Besides the terms listed here, there are numerous regional or local slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific, i.e. specific to one particular version of dominoes, but apply to a wide range of domino games.