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A domino with four pips on one side, and zero on the other. Dominoes use pips that are similar to dice. Each half of a domino tile can have anywhere from no pips all the way up to 18, in practice, depending on the set. A common double-six set has pips all the way up to six arranged in the same manner to dice pips.
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.
dot See pip. [10] 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
Points are earned when a player plays a tile (also called a domino or bone) with the result that the count (the sum of all open ends) is a multiple of five. The points earned are equal to the sum of the ends. [1] Therefore, if a player plays a tile that makes the sum of the ends 5, 10, 15 or 20, the player scores that number.
Longana is a four-player game using a double-nine set; like Mexican Train it also calls for a double domino to start in the center of a cruciform layout and uses the same public / private switching system upon passing a turn; the primary differences in Longana are a double may be played on any chain, there is no common, always-public train, and ...
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.
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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.