This link contains lots of rules for domino games. Its content is not free, so we can't use it here directly, but I hope enthusiasts of one or more games will create articles about those games here, and this link should remain here as a good resource. -- LDC
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"The Netherlands has hosted an annual domino toppling exhibition called Domino Day since 1986." There were Domino Day like Events as early as 1986, and the Domino Day itself was annual (except 2003), but only from 1998 until 2009. Proof is on the german Entry of Domino Day. Now, I'm just to shy to edit by myself... 188.22.35.39 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:23, 8 December 2011 (UTC).
There are 28, not 21, tiles in a double 6 set. I'll try to revert if I can find the change in the history. ... The issue is this: the triangular # formulas are correct, but dominoes include a blank "number" as well. Therefore, for a double-6 set "n" == 7 !! (7*(7+1)/2 = 28) Kace7 ( talk) 21:56, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
I removed this passage from the end of the article:
"Another less common variation of dominos is known as Stacy Dominos in which the rules are less concrete and alter according to the whims of the creator of the game. At the time of the publication of this definition, there is actually only one person who knows how to play this game."
Regardless of the spelling errors, there are problems with this. If this is true, and it sounds too far-fetched to be true, it is not widespread enough to be included in an encyclopedic article. Also, the entry is unreferenced. A Google search of "Stacy Dominoes" yields zero hits. All of this leads me to believe the entry needed to be removed. Jamesfett 15:08, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
In English pubs it's common for players to place their dominoes in two rows so they may be picked up with one hand, leaving the other hand free to drink a pint.
I have a different question on scoring. The article says that in a blocked game:
Who wins? Who gets to add to their score? The player with the most pips or the player with the fewest pips? Are the winner's pips included in the winner's score? Totally clueless here. By the way, this is not the first time I've ended up with that same question while looking up domino rules.
I guess the answer is supposed to be obvious once you know the rules, but it isn't to me. If the opponent or opposing team's score is determined by the pips in one's hand, then one goal would be to end up with few points. The person with the fewest pips would seem to be closer to being "empty" than the person with more pips and thus would win. On the other hand, since the objective is to achieve a high score, the person with the most pips would have the advantage. Also, in a basic game does the person who blocked the last end get any points for their move? Ileanadu ( talk) 12:12, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Why Dominoes may not be played on Sunday in Alabama? -- 84.61.54.65 16:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
No offense guys, but this article needs help. Overlooking the monstrous intro paragraph for a moment, I was reading the Common domino games section, trying to learn the game, and was assaulted by these opening sentences:
Most domino games are block games or draw games. In draw games, players draw from the boneyard when they have no matching bone. In block games, players pass and forfeit the turn when they have no matching bone. Otherwise, there is no difference.
Are these really the first four things we want to say about common domino games? As someone who hasn't played dominoes before, this contains very little information. What is a boneyard? What does it mean to "draw" from the boneyard? What is a "bone", and what is a "matching bone"? I realize some of these terms may be defined earlier in the article, but that's not sufficient. A Wikipedia article is not like a software program: you can't just define a bunch of jargon at the top of the article and use it later on without expecting readers to become confused.
To me, the most basic thing about dominoes is that the objective is to play all of one's dominoes before the other player does. Thankfully, this appears in the first paragraph, but for some reason it's hidden at the end. The next most basic thing about dominoes is that a domino is played by matching half of one domino to half of another one. I haven't scanned the article to see if this appears somewhere in it; frankly, I shouldn't have to. I think it should be one of the very first things we say in Common domino games. Instead, the current first sentence digresses to "train games" and "Mexican dominoes" before even describing the basic gameplay.
I don't know enough about dominoes to rewrite large parts of this article, but I'm willing to help with the effort if any of the domino experts in the crowd can pitch in. The first suggestion I'd make is to have a "basic gameplay" section followed by a section on variations. Any takers? -- Doradus 15:50, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Come on, somebody. Apparently it's been a year and there is still no 'basic gameplay' section. I came here today to learn how to play but just wasted my time... --Dec 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.113.122.206 ( talk) 16:35, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I totally agree. Obviously this article is written for people who already know how to play. This is ridiculous. I'll look elsewhere before I consider Wikipedia again for information about rules for playing common games. roricka 11 July 2008
Does anyone know what the difference between Mexican train and Private train to me they sound the same.-- Psjoding 20:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Isn't the etymology derived from Polyominoes? 81.208.165.173
It is very popular here in the Dominican Republic. Perhaps that´s where it got it´s name? -a traveler. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.167.71.13 ( talk) 19:34, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Who set the 4M-fall record in '06? Pete Townsend 18:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I am curious as to exactly how the game became such a big part of African American culture. Perhaps this page needs a section on cultural influence/popularity. I know this game is very popular among Italians as well (at least in New York). Scott Free 17:47, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
On the Puremco site which is linked at the top of this page there is a domino solitaire game called traffice. The rules are not clear, like many of the rules on that game. Does anyone know this game? How do you play?
Evidently invented in 2008-03, this was posted on this page on 2008-03-25. It is 2008-03-30 as I delete it from the page, while preserving the text here on the Talk page, should this "little-known game" have merit.
How about some evidence before adding such inventions to the Wikipedia? Or at least a definition of a "Coaster". -- Evertype· ✆ 22:02, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Mahjongg may be made of thick blocks similar in shape to dominoes but it is primarily a card-game. The links should be amended if there is consensus on this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Salisbury-99 ( talk • contribs) 11:41, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
If I were an alien looking at this page I would have a lot of trouble working out how big dominos are. There are details of materials but nothing about dimensions, and all the pictures lack any size context. RPTB1 ( talk) 17:06, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
A funny concept, but I agree. They could be as big as a house! Dominoes can come in any size of course and still be called dominoes, but perhaps a standard size could be listed. Common sense comes into reason of course, such as, since they are a game, they are most likely movable by hand and relatively small, for ease of play and manipulation. I'm sure if one of us bought 20 domino sets from 20 manufacturers, they would differ within a small range of size. ie. 2-3" in length and .75"-1.25" in width. Aliens, beware our huge dominos. Ratataz ( talk) 03:55, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm hoping someone can add a history for when toppling dominoes began and when it gained popularity. That's the entire reason I came to Wikipedia today. I'm sure there would be some significance to this. Kit Foxtrot ( talk) 19:11, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
The second paragraph discusses materials for dominoes. The last sentence in the paragraph talks about natural materials, and that they are "much more expensive than polymer materials". However, polymers aren't mentioned elsewhere as domino materials.
I'm guessing that polymers should be added early in the paragraph, but have no knowledge to back that up. Anyone? -- Dan Griscom ( talk) 12:34, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
For the most neophyte of players (me) there is confusion in the article (I think) as what is known about the other player's hand. I found this:
on another site (sorry about the cut and paste).
I'll not edit at this time because I'm a complete Dominoes dumbell but if some watchlister agrees then please add this information. If it is already in the article please feel free to slap me for the oversight. hydnjo ( talk) 02:53, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Redraw:
Certain variations of the game allow a re-draw if 4 or more of the dominoes in a player's hand turn out to be doubles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.246.8.72 ( talk) 10:34, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
I see that there has been an edit conflict between dominos and dominoes I would like to point out there is a word dominos, In Chamber's it is only for the cloak and not for the playing piece. Tetron76 ( talk) 16:00, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
I have removed the section saying the "oldest known domino set was found in Tutankhamen's tomb". There were *no* dominoes in King Tut's tomb. In his exhaustive contemporaneous handwritten cards of all the artefacts found in the tomb, the excavator Howard Carter makes no mention of dominoes. He does list three "games-boxes" (items that he numbered 345, 393 and 395): they contained only knuckle-bones, "playing pieces" (similar to draughtsmen) and throwing sticks. (Ref: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/)
In addition, these first six sentences I have excised were a direct lift from the website that was referenced as an external link ( http://www.worlddomino.com/history.htm). Apart from the assertion that dominoes were found in King Tut's tomb, there are at least three other errors in this short section (the correct information below is from the Wikipedia entry on Tutankhamun]
I therefore consider the webpage www.worlddomino.com/history.htm to be an unreliable source of facts, and have deleted it from the article.
Gallina3795 ( talk) 15:58, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Never mind what I said before. I misread your comment. Is there a definitive source for the history of dominoes - an "according to Hoyle"?
Ileanadu (
talk) 12:44, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
The King Tut history is legit, The Royal Game of Ur or Game of Twenty Squares was unearthed in excavations in the 1920’s and is considered one the oldest complete board games. Commonly reffered to as 1922 discovery of 1 several Senet board games in the Egyptian Tomb of King Tutankhamen. References of Senet and fragments of Senet game boards date back further than the 2600BC’s and is referred to as a royal game. [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:6000:CDC6:200:8936:65AF:8A06:7F59 ( talk) 23:01, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Dominoes is a huge trend in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It's actually almost traditional to play it. However there doesn't seem to be much information about this in this wiki page. This could further provide the detail of the Dominoes history. Why don't you guys look into this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.25.229.61 ( talk) 23:17, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Another comment above says the game is very popular in the Dominican Republic. It is also (or was) very popular in Cuba. The game could have been brought to the Caribbean by Spaniards or by the African slaves. Ileanadu ( talk) 12:47, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Should this page be linked to Bones (disambiguation) due to the nickname?
TauntingElf ( talk) 22:24, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Andrew Lo asserts that Zhou Mi meant dominoes when referring to pupai, since the Ming author Lu Rong (1436–1494) explicitly defined pupai as dominoes (in regards to a story of a suitor who won a maiden's hand by drawing out four winning pupai from a set). /info/en/?search=Dominoes#History
This maiden hand mentioned here,is it a winning hand consists of combination of the four winning pupai?
It's not a physical hand of a human maiden right? ShanghaiWu ( talk) 11:36, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
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The description of the games seems to be identical with that at this site, but it is not clear which is the source. If onlinecasinobonuswelt.com is the source, it should be summarised and cited, not copied. If Wikipedia is the source, the section should be tagged as needing citations. Is anyone able to work out who has copied whom? Bermicourt ( talk) 21:37, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello? I have not found much about domino toppling, even though it is much more popular than the original dominos game. It's sad that a game that is not interactive takes over 2/3 of the page, while constructing objects with dominoes is barely included. Could you try to expand it please? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 19:24, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Who deleted the "Other Uses" Section? This article is supposed to be about dominoes in general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 19:16, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
The Dominos Pizza redirect is already listed in the Domino(Disambiguation) page. Please let me know why you insist on keeping it.107.184.63.8
Thank you so much! 107.184.63.8 At least now I know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 21:17, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
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), but that probably requires further discussion and thought. --
Pokechu22 (
talk) 21:27, 25 February 2022 (UTC)I also think that Domino Toppling is secondary as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 21:44, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
It appears there is an ongoing hatnote war which I intervened to try and restore what I thought was in line with Wiki practice only to be reverted. The background is that while this article Dominoes is clearly the primary topic, there are dozens of secondary topics as can be seen from Domino (disambiguation). These include domino toppling and Domino's Pizza which are two of the topics that feature in the dispute. My proposal is that we only need to link to Domino (disambiguation) because that covers all other options. The alternative of adding separate hatnotes clutters up the top of the article unnecessarily and immediately begs the question of which ones to include and exclude. Unless there is a consensus over adding more hatnotes, I propose we reduce to one. It could be modified to include "Domino" and "Dominoes" in its text if that's felt to be important. Bermicourt ( talk) 18:25, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
I think I am the one who started this war(resolved with agreement feb 25), and I believe the "dominos" hatnote for the pizza should be there due to popularity, and the "domino" hatnote for domino toppling should be also there due to its popularity. Thanks. 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 19:17, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
Good point. We could organise the disambiguation page instead. That may be better and less cluttered. 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 21:47, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
Or, the hatnotes could be sorted by relevance, since one could link to disambiguation for random topics, and we could put domino toppling in as a hatnote, because this and the game of dominoes are somewhat linked closer than rock bands and whatnot? 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 18:29, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
I mean, domino toppling is less ambiguous than the other popular topics(rock bands, singers, etc). That is why I wanted to sort the disambiguation page. 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 16:59, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
So, should we redirect "dominos" to the pizza page? 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 20:28, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
The definition of dominoes in wikipedia is "Each domino is a rectangular tile 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." I think that can be simplified to "Each domino is a plastic rectangular chip", and maybe also add in "in a 1:2 ratio". 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 17:50, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Probably the "approximately 1:2 ratio" one, because it is more general, and perhaps not so biased as a definition(maybe not plastic... my bad) 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 18:06, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
Plus, maybe change the article name to Dominoes(game)? 107.184.63.8 ( talk) 18:09, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
Regarding this, the entire "history" section is predicated on the obvious link to China, or else the discussion of "Chinese dominoes" would be off topic? I don't understand the point being made here? "Domino" refers to the 18th century game. It is clearly based indirectly on older Chinese tile games, but there is no clear evidence of a direct loan of any specific Chinese game. The topic here is the 18th century game. Possible Chinese predecessors are relevant, but they were (obviously) not named "domino" until much later. The term Chinese dominoes is a western umbrella term grouping all manners of Chinese tile games, based on the analogy to the western game of domino. Could you please explain how you came to the conclusion that there is "No evidence of a link" of the game of domino with China, all the while leaving in the discussion of early Chinese tile games? -- dab (𒁳) 09:47, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Not moved & speedy close. Unanimous opposition & consensus to move highly unlikely to develop. "Dominoes" is the correct spelling of the board game. Google Translate is unreliable, and this incorrect translation simply demonstrates that fact. ( non-admin closure) Estar8806 ( talk) 23:32, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
Dominoes → Dominos – Correct spelling of the board game. Google Translate says that correct translation is dominos, not dominoes. 2001:448A:11A8:11DB:FCA7:9447:478C:69D7 ( talk) 13:14, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
The CIApedia article says: "Dominoes have sometimes been used for divination, such as bone throwing in Chinese culture and in the African diaspora."
The article however states the dominoes (the object) leads back to oracle bone in early China, not necessarily that modern dominoes are used for divination in China. And says that those who supposedly use dominoes for divination are Afro-Caribbeans, not Africans.
I can't edit this as I'm being persecuted on Wikipedia for apparently offending Anglo nationalists and their "western ethnicity" narrative as well as "hindus" and their "reliable sources millions of years old". Westernethinicity33 ( talk) 18:50, 18 June 2024 (UTC)