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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.

 

Suprisingly, little seems to be known about the early history of dominoes.  There are no references to dominoes in Western Literature before the middle of the 18th century, when domino games were first played in Italy and France.  Later dominoes spread over Europe and to England and America.  the standard Western set of dominoes had always consisted of 28 tiles that display all possible pairs of digits from 0 through 6.  Each digit appears seven times in the set.

Dominoes may have been called dominoes because of their resemblance to the black domino half-mask worn in masquerades.  No one knows whether European dominoes were invented independently or copied from the Chinese.  In any case, dominoes were popular in China for centuries before they became known in Europe.

For more info on how to play Dominoes see our FAQ’s and for Strategy and Tips check out our Message Board



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