Domino Games

Front Matter

• Introduction - including the history of the game
• Terms and Language - words and their meanings
• Bibliography - other works on the subject

Occidental Games

• 42 - a trick taking game popular in Texas
• Bergen - not just a city in Norway...
• Castle Rock Solitaire - a domino game from the Bergen family
• The Chickenfoot Game - try not to cluck up in this matching game of branches
• Five-Up (aka Muggins or just Dominoes) - a basic draw game
• Flower & Scorpion - a Bergen variant
• Longana - a Domino game as seen in the movie, Buena Vista Social Club
• Nos - a rather complicated Dutch game
• Trains
  • Basic Trains - a simple variant that demonstrates the mechanisms of this family of games
  • Mexican Trains - a variant first introduced by Cardinal Industries of Plano, Texas

Oriental Games

• Chinese Dominoes - an introduction
• Making a Chinese Domino Set - using European Dominoes

• Pai Gow - Make Nine in this percursor to Baccarat and Chemin de Fer
• Tien Gow - a trick taking game
• Tiu U - Fishing for matches
• Kap Tai Shap - Collecting Tens in this ancestor of Rummy and Mah Jong

Other Sites

• Dominoes 42 - an entire site devoted to this game
• Puremco - Waco, Texas based domino manufacturer

Software Sites

• Dominoes, etc - 42 and other popular Texan variants (Windows, HP 100XL/200XL)
• The Game Maker - many different Domino games (Windows)

The Game Cabinet - editor@gamecabinet.com - Ken Tidwell