Dominoes (or "dominos") generally refers to the individual or collective gaming pieces making up a domino set (sometimes called a deck or pack) or to the games played with these pieces. (In the area of mathematical tilings and polyominoes the word domino often refers to any rectangle formed from joining two squares edge to edge.) Standard domino sets consist of 28 pieces called bones, cards, tiles, stones, spinners or dominoes. Each bone is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of black spots (also called pips) or is blank. The spots are generally arranged as they are on six-sided dice, but because there are also blank ends having no spots there are normally seven possible faces. Standard domino sets have ends ranging from zero spots to six spots (double six set), but specialized sets might range from zero to nine (double nine set), zero to twelve (double twelve set), zero to fifteen (double fifteen set), or zero to eighteen (double eighteen set). The back side of a domino is generally plain. Dominoes have been made of bone, ivory, plastic, metal and wood, and occasionally are made of cardstock like that for playing cards. Dominoes are rather generic gaming devices—just as are playing cards. Many different games can be played with a set of dominoes.

History

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Dominoes are descendants of dice. The two ends on each of the original Chinese dominoes represented one of the 21 combinations that can occur with the throw of two dice. Modern western dominoes, however, have blank ends on them as well and so the number of dominoes is generally 28. Dominoes were apparently unknown in Europe until the 18th century and may have been invented in their modern form in Dominican Republic. The dark spots on light faces apparently reminded people of masquerade masks with eyeholes (called dominoes) and thus gave the playing pieces their name. Chinese dominoes do not have blanks, but some whole tiles are duplicated.

Domino tiles and suits

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radsprack (Ryan Spracklen) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:59:59 -0000
@kaaaatiet it's only 1am. i think dominoes is open til 2
@iitsMOOKIE its a sample of Lil Keke in "Pimp Tha Pen", says "time to lay em down like a fresh set of dominoes"
fbc_936tx (Garrett Sechelski) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:40:46 -0000
@iitsMOOKIE its a sample of Lil Keke in "Pimp Tha Pen", says "time to lay em down like a fresh set of dominoes"
Sometimes I see a line of dominoes and I am compelled to give one a little tap.
derekdb (Derek del Barrio) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:40:28 -0000
Sometimes I see a line of dominoes and I am compelled to give one a little tap.
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