How to play Dominoes
This is the classic draw game of dominoes, played with a double-six set of 28 tiles for 2 to 4 players. Each tile has two ends with 0 to 6 dots. The goal is to play all of your tiles before anyone else does.
- The deal: with two players, each gets 7 tiles. With three or four, each gets 5. The rest form the boneyard, the face-down draw pile.
- The start: the player with the highest double opens the chain by playing it. If nobody has a double, the highest tile opens.
- Playing: in turn, add a tile to either end of the chain so that its matching end touches a tile end with the same number of dots. Doubles are placed across the chain.
- Cannot play? Draw tiles from the boneyard until you can. When it is empty, you pass.
- All Fives (the default style): whenever the two open ends add up to a multiple of five, the player who made that play scores that many points at once. A double at an end counts both halves. In Classic draw, points are scored only when a round ends.
- Winning a round: the first player to play their last tile wins and scores the dots left in the other hands. If everyone is blocked, the player with the fewest dots wins the round and scores the difference.
- The match: play rounds until someone reaches the target score (50, 100 or 150), or play a single round.
Playing Dominoes on boardflix
Choose how many computers join you and how hard they play, or press Create Room to play friends online. Your tiles that fit are lifted. Drag one onto a glowing end of the chain, or tap it, and if a tile fits at both ends you choose the end. In an online room every player sees only their own tiles, and all hands are shown at the end of the round.