Dominoes

Object of Game

Dominoes is a 2 players game played with pieces that have two square ends, where each end has a number of pips (the dots on each end). There are a total of 28 domino pieces in play.

Each player starts with 7 pieces and these pieces should be placed on the board next to another that matches the number of pips.

Pieces with the same number of pips on each square (Doubles) are placed crosswise.

The first player who reaches the number of the score set on the initial settings (20/50/100) wins.

There are 3 game modes of Dominoes on Plato:

Draw

Each player will try to place on the board a piece from their hand that matches the number of pips. If they don't have any piece that matches the ones on the board then it will draw a piece from the Boneyard until they have one that matches. If the Boneyard is empty, the turn will be skipped and the other player will play again.

If both players cannot move, a new round will start. At the end of each round, both players will reveal their pieces, the hand that sums more pips (between all pieces in their hand) will lose the round, and that number of pips will be the number of points that the winner will get.

Blocked

This mode has the same rules as "Draw" but the Boneyard will be empty from the beginning.

All Fives

This mode has some differences from the "Draw" mode:

The first double piece in the board will be the Spinner, this means that this piece allows placing pieces vertically once the horizontal sides are used.

The score will be added after each move (not at the end of the round) if the sum of all ends on the board is a multiple of five, the number of points you get is the result of this sum. If the sum is not a multiple of five you won't get points.