Game 113: Dominoes
I don't know that we'd ever played standard Dominos with this set. I know we've played the Mexican Train version of dominoes and that years ago we went through a short phase where we were pretty hooked on that. I had played standard Dominos (or seen it played) at my grandfather's house when I was a kid. Yesterday, Caleb, who had just learned Dominos from friends at a youth leadership retreat, asked if we wanted to play. This was a fun game to relearn. Classics always appeal to me! (And the dominoes have such a good feel to them as well.) Though this is a double-15 set, we played only a double-6 version. We had to use a double-15 as a double-1, however, since I took a domino to my office as a demo for a math problem, and it has stayed there ever since. If you pay attention as you look at the pictures, you'll see a double-15 where a double-1 should be. Other than this, I'm mostly going to let the pictures speak for themselves, as I imagine this classic game is quite well known!
I don't know that I'd ever seen proper scoring. This was pretty fun to learn. David is usually our score-keeper, and he's a very meticulous one at that, but he was out biking when Caleb and I played the first game. He joined in on the third and was trying to figure out what the marks meant, which was a pretty good game in and of itself!
I won both games, BTW, which is a pretty rare event.
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