

DRAW DOMINOES FREE
The game always has two open ends and players are free to play to any of the two ends. Doubles are always played in vertical orientation and non-doubles are played in horizontal orientation. If boneyard has no tile left to draw, then turn is passed to the next player. The player continues to draw tile from the boneyard until he can find a matching tile to play immediately. If player does not have a matching tile, then he must draw a tile from the boneyard and play immediately if it can be played. Matching sides should always be placed adjacent to each other making non-matching end to be the open-end. Then any tile with one of its end having a 6 can be played as shown below. Next player can play a tile only if one end of the tile matches either of the two open ends of domino tile(s) already played in the game.įor ex If a double-six was played as following Once first domino tile has been played, turn is passed clockwise to the next player. In highest-double rule, if no players gets a double, then domino tiles are collected from all players, shuffled and re-drawn. For highest-tile rule, player asks if someone has tile with value 12, if not then 11, and so on. For ex for highest-double rule player asks if someone has 6-6, if no one has it, then 5-5 and so on.

Since players can only see their own tiles, in order to find out who gets to start the turn, one player asks depending upon the rules. The rule for first turn is determined at the beginning of the game. Player with highest tile (sum of pips on both ends).Player with highest double (domino tile having same number of pips on both ends).In Draw Dominoes players can draw tiles from the boneyard whereas in Block Dominoes players could not draw tiles from the boneyard.įirst turn is decided by using one of the two alternate ways (similar to Block Dominoes) Players can only see their own tiles.ĭraw Dominoes is played similar to Block Dominoes with one difference. The stock pile is normally referred to as the Boneyard. Remaining tiles are set aside to form the stock pile. For 3 or 4 players game each player draws 5 tiles.For 2 players game each player draws 7 tiles.Final winning score can be decided by the players to be less than 100 at the beginning for a shorter game play.Īll domino tiles are shuffled at the beginning of the game and then each player draws tiles face-down to make up his hand Points are calculated at the end of each round. The game is played for multiple rounds with objective to be the first to score 100 points. Draw Dominoes game is one of the simplest variant of domino games sometimes also referred to as The Draw Game.
