DOMINO ACTIVITIES

List of Many Domino Games:

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 Add-Em-Up 50  All Fives  All Threes  Baronet  Basic Draw Poker  Bergen  Blind Dominoes  Block  Castle Rock  Chickenfoot  Clock  Collecting Tens  Concentration  Cross Dominoes  Cuban Dominoes  Cyprus  Disputing Tens  Domino Pool  Doubles DOMINO FACT  Draw  Eighty-Eight  Fishing FAMILY  Five-Up  Five-Up Solitaire  Fortress  Forty-Two  Fours  Gin Rummy  Go Fish  Good Neighbors  Hearts  Latin American Match Dominoes  Linger Longer  Luzon  Magic 7  Maltese Cross

 Matador  Merry-Go-Round  Mexican Flip  Mexican Train  Moon  Super Dominoes

CONCENTRATION

Number Of Players: 2 or more MULTIPLY DOMINO Domino Set Required: Normally uses a double-six set, but larger sets may support more players DOTS:

Concentration Dominoes is similar to Choose one tile—multiply the the Concentration card game. It's a simple game, and requires little planning dots by writing a number sentence or strategy, but a good memory definitely helps.

Setup

Shuffle the dominoes, then arrange them into a 4 x 7 grid. In Concentration, players do not have hands, but play from the tiles on the table. 2 x 4 = 8

Gameplay

Each player in turn turns over two dominoes. If the dots on the two tiles add up to 12 (as in the 4-3 plus 4-1 in the photo), remove them from the grid, set them aside, and take another turn.

If the two dominoes do not add up to 12, turn them back over. Play passes to the

next player.

Concentration is played to 50 points (tiles). DOMINO: Another

Explanation Number of Players: 2-4

Type of Dominoes Used: Double 6 Type of Game: Scoring Game One of the most popular of all domino games. Educational and easy to learn for children. Straight Dominoes is the game usually played at old-fashioned domino halls in small towns throughout Texas and other southern states.

Players: Two, three or four may play the game of Dominoes. If four are playing the game, it may be played as a partnership (the two players sitting opposite one another are partners). The Shuffle: To begin the dominoes are placed face down and “shuffled.” Players draw one domino. The player drawing the highest double or if no double, the highest domino plays first. Re-shuffle and then begin drawing the first hand. Drawing: Each player then draws seven dominoes for his hand. The remaining dominoes (the boneyard), if any, are left face down on the table to be drawn later if a player is unable to play from his hand. Begin Play: The player who drew the highest double ADD DOMINO DOTS or the highest domino plays first, playing any domino he wishes from his had. …TO REACH A GOAL Object of the game: Scoring points by laying the dominoes end to end (the touching ends must match: i.e., one’s touch one’s, two’s touch two’s, etc.). If the Set a “target number:” dots on the exposed ends total any multiple of five the player is awarded that number of points. All sides (50, 100?) of the first double (the spinner) may be used one piece to each side and later one to each end. All …take turns drawing tiles other doubles are played at right angles to the line and the total points on both ends are counted. Dominoing occurs when one player goes out by ..add the number on playing all of his dominoes. The sum of the spots of all opposing players is computed and added to the your tiles dominoing player’s score (rounded to the nearest five). In partnership play the spots of the partner of the one who “DOMINOED” are not counted. …then add your sum to

Blocking the Game: If in the course of the game it is your ongoing total impossible for any of the players to play, the game is

“Blocked.” The player (or partners) having the least spots in his (or their combined) hand(s) scores the …continue until you total of the spots in the opponents’ hands (rounded to the nearest five). The score of 250 points is usually reach your “target considered a game. The first person (or partnership) to score this amount wins the game. Shuffle and number” begin a new game. The player who won plays first. DOMINO TOPPLING From: domino-play.com Straight Lines

The first domino formation a beginner should try is the most basic and simple straight line. All you have to do is set up your dominoes squarely one after an other. Don't have them at angles to each other or you may find they don't topple the one in front, and they may also fall and hit a domino in another line next to it. The only skill in this move is to make sure the dominoes are spaced at the right distance from each other. If your tiles are 1.5 inches long then you should space them about two-thirds of an inch to no-less than half-an-inch apart. Any farther and they won't knock the next one over. If they are too close then they'll topple over too fast and lose the satisfying effect you're after. There's no need to measure the precise distance between them, you should find your own judgement is good enough after a few tries.

Turns

A turn is two straight lines that are connected, but going in different directions. You can have any angle of turn you like from 90 degrees, 180 degrees, to any degree you want. The things to know about turns are that the distance between dominoes is closer on the inside of the turn, and to make sure the angle between each tile making up the turn isn't too great. Because the surface area of the hit on the next domino is smaller in a turn, you really want an angle of no more than about 30 degrees between each tile.

Splits or Split-Offs

A split-off is a single line of dominoes that branches off into two separate lines. These are key to most complex patterns and displays allowing .freedom in your designs. Split-offs are pretty easy to set up and just involve setting two dominoes side-by- side so they are almost touching, placed at the front-end of a straight line. You then line your subsequent tiles in two continuing lines, one for each of the initial two, branching out in turns or two straight lines set at an angle to each other. .

Combining Lines, Splits, and Turns

You can create allsorts of patterns and designs with just the basic elements of domino-toppling.

Diamonds

A diamond-shaped toppling setup like the one illustrated below can be quite easily done and because it is symmetrical it can be toppled in either direction and used anywhere in a display, It is just a split-off with a series of dominoes offset about one- quarter to one-third of their width,