Dominoes
Hello! Welcome back
to my blog!
Today, I will be
talking about the game dominoes, although seeming easy, can be complex,
frustrating and fun.
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A few years back, my
family seemed bored during the summers...we had nothing to do, and so we would
occasionally take trips with each other to random places around Canada, the
states, or the Caribbean. My father is a pastor for a church which I've been going
to for my entire life. The name of this church was the World Impact Centre
(W.I.C). One year, a pastor from the Caribbean called my dad and told him about
a youth encounter that happens every year in the Antigua. My dad and mother,
now struck with new ideas and feelings of this camp, had sent me there on my
own to enjoy it.
Enough with the
backstory, now to get into detail !
While in the
Caribbean, they play a lot of games in which we would think was weird, but when
seeing it, its mesmerizing. I heard they play "dominoes". When I hear
dominoes? I think of the way you used to play with them, just stacking them up
and knocking them down right? In actuality, that’s a giant flaw with that
statement. As said before I learned that its not the same way that they play
dominoes.
Dominoes in the
Caribbean is carried out in a different way. The rules of the game dominoes is
like so:
Players: 4
Objective/ How to
win: Have no more playable domino tiles in your hands
How to Lose: Not be
the first to have no more playable domino tiles in your hands.
Explanation: With
domino, the lower the tile number, the higher chance that you have of winning.
For example, if someone has the 6/6 domino, and you had the 5/5, and that was
the last tile in each players hands, the 5/5 wins. Usual players try and find a
pattern with the tiles that they have, so they can lay it out correctly so that
in 7 turns, no tiles are left in their hands.
Tricks: To make
people lose faster, trap off their amount of high number tiles in their hand,
so no matter what, they lose. For example, in a box of dominoes, there are 28
tiles, thus letting four people play. There are 7 cards of each number, 1-6. If
each player had played a value of a "6" tile, except the last person,
who had the 6/6 tile, and you blocked "6"'s off so that he could not
attach his "6" to it, then he is stuck with the 6/6 which adds to 12,
and gives more assurance to the player that he cannot win.
Turns: Everyone has
7 cards and have to match each domino side with a side of its suit. Like a 6/1
and a 6/6 must only have the 6's touching. So it looks like so:
There are many ways
to go about trying to win this game. There are mental psyches that you could
learn in order to know who has what tile, also by watching the way they place
their tiles. For me, I play by counting all of the tiles, and then guessing who
has the next one, and trap the higher numbered cards so that I would win. With
dominoes, its very funny and comical. Though it can seem boring, it is fun too
see as to who will win.
Another thing that
we do to spice up the game is that, the loser has to drink water. By the
5th or 9th game, almost every person
except the consistent winner is crying. It is very comical I hope that anyone
who reads this blog would be able to have as much fun as I did with dominoes.
Overall it’s a great
game to play ! Everyone should try !
This is an example of how you shuffle the tiles. face down, with one hand going in a clockwise motion, and the other in a counter-clockwise motion.
(It's me in the picture!)
Kazekumaru --
Peacing Out!
Questions to
consider:
- After reading through that, would YOU like to play dominoes?
- If you have any questions or comments, place them in the comment section...BELOW !
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