| This is a game of
dominoes with very little skill, but good fun for younger
children to get used to matching their numbers or grown ups
who fancy a relaxing something.
Blind Hughie
Number of Players: 2-5
Game duration: 30 mins
Players aged: 5 +
A 'bone' or 'tile' is an actual domino.
A 'pip' is a spot on the bone, so the double six has twelve
pips.
To Play
Shuffle a set of double six dominoes and
draw to see who goes first, the highest bone wins. Reshuffle
the bones and deal them equally between players. In the case
of three or five players there are some left over, these are
not played.
To Play
Players do not look at their bones but
arrange them in a vertical row in front of them face down.
If there are any leftover bones turn one over to begin the
game, if not the first player lays any bone from their hand.
The second player then turns over the top bone in his row
and plays it if possible. If it cannot be played it is turned
face down and moved to the bottom of the row. If it is a double
then it is returned to the bottom of the row but it remains
face up so all the players can see it.
The next player then has his/her turn, playing
in the same way. Play continues until a player gets rid of
all their dominoes and calls “Domino!” or the
game is blocked.
At every stage a player may only play the domino
at the top of their row.
Scoring.
If the game is blocked the player with
the lowest amount of bones left, wins. The winner scores the
difference between the pips in his hand and each of the opponent’s
hands. The first to reach the agreed 50 or 100 wins.
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