Objective of Dominoes

Dominoes is a tile game also known as Bones. Play our two player dominoes with a draw of 7 or 9 dominoes from the boneyard. The dominoes which are not drawn are placed to the right side of the table to make up what is known as the Boneyard. A player is awarded points every time he/she makes a play that results in the open ends of the dominoes adding to a multiple of 5. The first player to reach the designated final score wins the game. If a player reaches the final score during play, the game ends at that point.

History of Dominoes

Domino games have been played by kings and presidents.  The oldest known domino set was found in Tutankhamen's tomb, among the ruins of Thebes.  Tutankhamen was king of ancient Egypt in the 18th dynasty, 1355 BC.  The set is now in King Tutankhamen's Museum, Cairo, Egypt. According to historians, a Chinese set, with 32 pieces, existed in the year 1120 AD.  President Lyndon B. Johnson was a devotee of dominoes and played with friends in Texas. Many different domino sets have been used for centuries in various parts of world to play a variety of domino games.  Dominoes are played by grown-ups and young people throughout the world.