Draw Dominoes Rules

How to Play Draw Dominoes

Objective

Draw Dominoes is among the simplest variants of dominoes games played between 2 to 4 players with aim to score 100 points before their opponent does. The game is played using a double-six domino set.

Gameplay

At the beginning of the game all domino tiles (also called bones) are shuffled and each player is dealt 7 tiles. The remaining tiles are kept in the boneyard and can be drawn later on in the game. The game is played in multiple rounds.

Domino tiles have two ends which are seperated by a line, each end resembling a die face. In addition to standard 6 die faces, domino tiles also contain blank faces whose value is considered to be zero. Non-blank face value is equal to pips count. The two ends in domino tiles are identified by their value (fron 0 to 6 in a double-six domino set).

First Turn

The player with the highest tile (sum of both ends in the tile) plays the first tile in the center.

Subsequent Turns

Next player can play a tile only if he has a tile which matches either of the two ends of the tile sequence in the play area. Player plays the tile by aligning the matching end of his tile to the matching end of the tile sequence in the play area. If player can not play a matching tile, he must draw a tile from the boneyard. The player is required to keep drawing tiles from the boneyard until he finds a tile which can be played. That tile must be immediately played and turn should be passed to the next player. If there is no tile left in the boneyard to draw, turn is passed to the next player.

The round ends as soon as a player has played all his tiles. The round also ends in case none of the players have a matching tile to play and there was no tile to draw from the boneyard. After end of the round all tiles are moved to the boneyard and shuffled and then 7 tiles are again dealt to each player.

Scoring

At the end of each round, pips are counted for remaining tiles (if any) for each player and player with lower remaining pips count wins the round and difference of the two pips counts are added to the winner's score. If both player have same pips count at the end of the round, the round is considered drawn and no points are added to their score for that round.

The first player to score 100 points wins the game.

For more information on this game and complete set of rules, refer to Domino-Games.com.