Wednesday, April 9. 2008
Dominate
This is another game proposal by Andy Lewicki and since BrainKing has no domino games yet, it might be worth a discussion about this topic. Or maybe not - anyway, this proposal sounds very interesting. 
Name: Dominate
Initial info:
Rules:
This simple game has enormous depth of strategic possibilities, players may guess only a portion of what tiles might be in opponent's hand (three of them are removed from the game but players do not know which).
It's highly unlikely that the game will be drawn. To fill the whole board with 18 tiles players would have to cooperate (solitaire-like mode) which will not be the case. So, prepare yourself for fierce fight from the very beginning.
And since I am not a domino player at all, perhaps someone who is more experienced would post a comment about this idea.
Name: Dominate
Initial info:
- From the whole set of 6x6 domino (28 tiles) set all the doubles (7 in all) are removed and not take part in the game.
- Game is to be played on a grid 6x6 giving 36 fields, which divided by 2 gives 18 double fields - this is the number of domino tiles distributed evenly to players.
Rules:
- Each player gets 9 tiles of domino and keep them unseen for the opponent and 3 domino tiles are left unused till the end of the game, face down.
- First player puts any domino tile on the board on any chosen place, either horizontally of vertically.
- Second player puts any chosen tile on any chosen place on the board, with restrictions below:
- No row or column may have the half of domino tile with the same number of pips at any time of the game.
- When the player has no more available moves, he loses the game
This simple game has enormous depth of strategic possibilities, players may guess only a portion of what tiles might be in opponent's hand (three of them are removed from the game but players do not know which).
It's highly unlikely that the game will be drawn. To fill the whole board with 18 tiles players would have to cooperate (solitaire-like mode) which will not be the case. So, prepare yourself for fierce fight from the very beginning.
And since I am not a domino player at all, perhaps someone who is more experienced would post a comment about this idea.
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This sounds really cool! I'ld like to try something new with Domino!
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Since numbers do not play any role regarding counting points, tiles can be "decorated" with any distinguished symbols ... domino tiles can use also regular numbers instead of pips or dots ...
I played this game as a solitaire and succeeded several times.
If you have domino set at home try this: remove all the doubles, shuffle remaining tiles face down and take one tile at the time an put on the table, face up of course ... second tile and next should touch any of the tiles already on the table and WATCH not to go over 6x6 size ...
The other way to play it, is to open all the tiles (after removing doubles), arrange them in a row of 21 tiles and take one by one from open end of this "snake" and try to build 6x6 grid ... it's completely open game this way ... remember, no column or row
can have a domino-half with the same number or symbol ... if you put 18 tiles in a grid, you win ... if not ..hm ...try again.
Regards,
Andy.
I played this game as a solitaire and succeeded several times.
If you have domino set at home try this: remove all the doubles, shuffle remaining tiles face down and take one tile at the time an put on the table, face up of course ... second tile and next should touch any of the tiles already on the table and WATCH not to go over 6x6 size ...
The other way to play it, is to open all the tiles (after removing doubles), arrange them in a row of 21 tiles and take one by one from open end of this "snake" and try to build 6x6 grid ... it's completely open game this way ... remember, no column or row
can have a domino-half with the same number or symbol ... if you put 18 tiles in a grid, you win ... if not ..hm ...try again.
Regards,
Andy.
Comments (2)
game DOMINATE can be played a little differently ... rules are the same, 6x6 grid, no duplicate halves in any row or column, freedom in choosing where to play your tiles ... but instead of
keeping opponent's tiles faced-down LET KEEP THEM OPEN at the top of the board ... (we will have completely open board game) ... AND ALLOW players to take ONLY left- or rightmost tiles from their racks ... this way we may have more control of the game and planning will play bigger role ... actually, I would like to see this version more ... my experience tells me that to much freedom leads to chaos and lower quality f the game ...
Andy.
keeping opponent's tiles faced-down LET KEEP THEM OPEN at the top of the board ... (we will have completely open board game) ... AND ALLOW players to take ONLY left- or rightmost tiles from their racks ... this way we may have more control of the game and planning will play bigger role ... actually, I would like to see this version more ... my experience tells me that to much freedom leads to chaos and lower quality f the game ...
Andy.
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