| A game to play with double nine
dominoes
To Play
With three to six players each player draws
seven tiles. With more players each player draws five dominoes.
The player with highest double goes first and
lays that double.
The object of the game is to create one line
of dominoes. Instead of matching dominoes laid next to each
other you must make them add up to ten. So if the two ends
of the line are a six and an eight then you can lay a two
or a four.
At the beginning of the game the leader might
lay the double nine. The next player would have to lay a one.
Lay the tile so the 1 is not on the end.
The Matador Tiles
There are six Matador tiles in the game. these
are tiles that add up to ten themselves; 9-1, 8-2, 7-3, 6-4,
double five and double blank. You can lay a Matador at any
time during the game. One of their uses is to unblock the
game. When a blank is laid you can only lay a Matador tile
against it and there are more blanks than Matador tiles so
they are worth keeping if you want to keep the game open.
Other Rules
If a player cannot lay a tile or has a Matador
that they do not wish to lay then they must draw from the
boneyard. The player keeps drawing until she can go or until
there are only two tiles left in the boneyard. Then she can
pass.
Once there are only two tiles in the boneyard
a player that cannot go may pass. In this case the player
must play a matador if they have one.
If all the players pass then the round is blocked.
Winning and scoring
A player that manages to lay all their dominoes
cries out "domino" and they have won.
The player who wins scores the total of all
the unplayed pips in the other players' hands.
If the game is blocked the player with the the
least amount of pips wins and scores the difference between
their pips and each of their opponents'.
The first player to get 200 points wins the
round. |
