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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.
The 32 tiles in a Chinese dominoes set can be arranged into 16 named pairs. Eleven of these pairs have identical tiles, and five of these pairs are made up of two tiles that have the same total number of pips, but in different groupings. The latter group includes the Gee Joon tiles, which can score the same, whether as three or six.
A full set of Chinese dominoes. Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, tien gow, pai gow, tiu u and kap tai shap.In Cantonese they are called gwāt pái (骨牌), which literally means "bone tiles"; it is also the name of a northern Chinese game, where the rules are quite different from the southern Chinese version of tien gow.
A typical four-player game of Mexican Train using the double-nine set and the branching doubles variation; the eponymous Mexican Train is not in view. 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 ...
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 ...
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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.
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