a b c d e Kelley, Jennifer A.; Lugo, Miguel (2003). The Little Giant Book of Dominoes. Sterling. ISBN 1-4027-0290-6. Play a domino that matches the pip-count of the exposed half of the previous domino played on their own train. For example, if player #1 has played a 12-5 domino in the first round, they can now play a domino that has 5 pips on the end of their train. If player #1 has a double domino matching the exposed pip-count, it is played crosswise (perpendicular) across the exposed half of the previous domino. At the beginning of a round, lead double is taken out and placed at the center. Each player then receives 5 tiles from the remaining tiles.

Every tile which features a given number is a member of the suit of that number. A single tile is a member of two suits: for example, 🀴 belongs both to the suit of threes and the suit of blanks, or 0 suit. Mexican Train Dominoes is played in multiple rounds with aim to score lowest at the end of all rounds to win.

Each player’s first move and opening private trains

n ( n + 1 ) ( n + 2 ) 2 {\displaystyle {\frac {n(n+1)(n+2)}{2}}} i.e. the number of tiles multiplied by the maximum pip-count ( n) Whenever a double is played, it must be closed at the open end with a matching tile. The player who played the double is allowed to play additional tile to any other train (open to player for play) but subsequent players must play a tile on the double first if it was not closed. Some modern descriptions of All Fives are quite different from the original, having lost much of their cribbage character and incorporating a single spinner, making it identical, or closely related, to Sniff. [25] [26] Most published rule sets for Muggins include the rule that gives the game its name, but some modern publications omit it even though the muggins rule has been described as the unique feature of this game. [26] To play on your iPhone or iPad, visit the App Store. For Android tablets, visit the Play Store. A Kindle Store version is also available. Learn more about Mexican Train with these free guides, strategies, and how-tos Clarifying Mexican Train Dominoes rules and questions during gameplay

Richard" (1865). Académie des jeux: contenant la règle de chacun des principaux jeux. Paris: Bernardin-Bechet. Player 1 starts the public Mexican Train by placing their highest double in the center to set the station number. For instance, playing a double-6 means the station starts at 6.At the beginning of the game you meet three other players from all around the world. Each and every one of you has the same goal: to get rid of your domino tiles first. Whenever you have no fitting tile you can pass and skip the round in the hope of being able to play in the next one. Try to predetermine which tile is most valuable and better to keep for later and which one to get rid of right away. Classic Dominoes game played with a choice of domino sets such as double-six, double-nine and double-twelve. Beautifully designed clean interface. Easy to learn and master. Turn all of your dominoes facedown and shuffle them on the table. Each player draws 1 tile. Whoever has the highest pip-count (dots) goes first. Return the tiles facedown and shuffle. The public Mexican Train begins on an empty line that matches the station number (i.e., 6) in the center or shared between players. It is open to every player and can be started any time after the first round of turns. Once a player opens the public Mexican Train, each player begins their own private train of dominoes by laying a tile that matches the station number. In our example starting at 6, a player must match the 6.

a b c d e f Hoyle, Edmond; Dawson, Lawrence Hawkins (1950). Hoyle's games modernized. Routledge & Kegan Paul. . Republished 1994 by Wordsworth Editions.If a player can not make a move, he/she draws one tile from the boneyard. if tile can be played, then it must be played, else turn is passed to the next player. Domino" and "Dominos" redirect here. For the restaurant chain, see Domino's. For other uses, see Domino (disambiguation). The game became fashionable in France in the mid-18th century. The name domino does not appear before that time, being first recorded in 1771, in the Dictionnaire de Trévoux. Your turn ends after you play one domino that is not a double or, being unable to do so, you pass and place your penny on your train. The only exception to this is that if your very last domino is a double you may go out (finish the game) with it. In that case, the game ends immediately and penalty points are tallied. You are the winner of this round, as you will have zero points. However, this is a relatively small number especially when playing with more than four people, so many domino sets are "extended" by introducing ends with greater numbers of spots, which increases the number of unique combinations of ends and thus of pieces. Each progressively larger set increases the maximum number of pips on an end by three; so the common extended sets are double-nine (55 tiles), double-12 (91 tiles), double-15 (136 tiles), and double-18 (190 tiles), which is the maximum in practice. Larger sets such as double-21 (253 tiles) could theoretically exist, but they seem to be extremely rare if not nonexistent, as that would be far more than is normally necessary for most domino games, even with eight players. As the set becomes larger, identifying the number of pips on each domino becomes more difficult, so some large domino sets use more readable Arabic numerals instead of pips.

Each player has a personal train on which they can play tiles. One additional train (called Mexican train) is also available for all players to play. The objective of Mexican Train Dominoes is to play all your tiles. The lowest score wins at the end of all rounds. In British public houses and social clubs, a scoring version of "5s-and-3s" is used. The game is normally played in pairs (two against two) and is played as a series of "ends". In each "end", the objective is for players to attach a domino from their hand to one end of those already played so that the sum of the end tiles is divisible by five or three. One point is scored for each time five or three can be divided into the sum of the two tiles, i.e. four at one end and five at the other makes nine, which is divisible by three three times, resulting in three points. Double five at one end and five at the other makes 15, which is divisible by three five times (five points) and divisible by five three times (three points) for a total of eight points. The traditional domino set contains one unique piece for each possible combination of two ends with zero to six spots, and is known as a double-six set because the highest-value piece has six pips on each end (the "double six"). The spots from one to six are generally arranged as they are on six-sided dice, but because blank ends having no spots are used, seven faces are possible, allowing 28 unique pieces in a double-six set.

Gameplay

Each domino originally represented one of the 21 results of throwing two six-sided dice (2d6). One half of each domino is set with the pips from one die and the other half contains the pips from the second die. Chinese sets also introduce duplicates of some throws and divide the tiles into two suits: military and civil. [10] Chinese dominoes are also longer than typical European ones. The oldest written mention of domino tiles in China dates to the 13th century and comes from Hangzhou where pupai (gambling plaques or tiles) and dice are listed as items sold by peddlers during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of Song (r. 1162–1189). [1] It is not entirely clear that pupai means dominoes, but the same term is used two centuries later by the Ming author Lu Rong (1436–1494) in a context that clearly describes domino tiles. [1] The earliest known manual on dominoes is the Manual of the Xuanhe Period which purports to be written by Qu You (1341–1427), [1] but some scholars believe it is a later forgery. [7] If player can play all tiles in the first round itself, other players get to finish their first turn. In Mexican Train and other train games, the game starts with a spinner from which various trains branch off. Most trains are owned by a player and in most situations players are allowed to extend only their own train.