Domino whist

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Elaborately crafted dominoes have small knobs in the middle , so that the stones do not lie flat on the table to make mixing easier. Domino bars prevent the stones from falling over.
Albert Anker : The girl with the dominoes, 2nd half of the 19th century.

Domino Whist is a variant of the domino game for four people in two partnerships. The game is played with a domino of six, i.e. H. with 28 stones.

The name Domino Whist suggests that this is an adaptation of the card game Whist for domino pieces, but this is not the case: with Domino Whist there are no tricks , no trumps and no honors .

The rules

Rating the stones

Each stone counts as many eyes ( points , pips ) as it is written on it: 6–6 counts twelve eyes, 4–2 six eyes, etc. If two players move stones with the same total, e.g. B. 4–3 and 6–1, the highest single number decides, so 6–1 is higher than 4–3. This ranking is only relevant for the drawing of the partnerships; When settling a game, 6–1 and 4–3 each count as seven pips.

Seating arrangements

The stones are shuffled face down; each player draws a stone.

  • The player who moves the highest stone chooses his seat, he is forehand in the first game.
  • The player who moves the second-highest stone is partner of the forehand and sits opposite the forehand;
  • The player who moved the third-highest stone sits to the left of the forehand.
  • The player who moved the fourth-highest stone sits to the right of the forehand.

Players sitting across from each other are partners for the duration of a game. As with whist, "high" plays against "low".

share

After the partnerships have been drawn, the pieces drawn are put back, shuffled again and divided: Each player receives seven pieces (i.e. just as all cards are dealt in a whist, all stones are distributed here: there is no talon .)

Forehand opens the game with a stone of his choice. Opening changes clockwise after each game: the second game is opened by the player to the left from forehand, the third by the partner from forehand, etc.

game

Block dominoes are now being played: the players in turn place one stone each. A player has to put in if he is able to do so (see Using Color in Whist) or pass .

A game ends when

  • a player his last stone creates, that makes , or Domino calls , or
  • all four players pass one after the other, ie no more players can add, so the game is blocked .

Lot

At the end of a game, both teams count their eyes and write them down as bad points. These are added after each game; a game ends as soon as a team scores 100 or more bad points.

Note : In contrast to the above rule, dominoes for four are played in many variations with different details; the rule given here is by no means binding in the same way as the rules of the game of chess .

bibliography

  • Detailed description in German
  • Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Miguel Lugo: How to Play Better Dominoes , Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York, 1998. An excellent book on the game of dominoes for four. However, the usual way of counting in the Caribbean differs from the one given above, so that the strategic notes in Lugo's book are not all valid for Domino Whist.
  • Prof. Hoffmann: The Cyclopaedia of Card and Table Games (1891), p 512, Kessinger Legacy Reprints