Dominoes guide
How to play Dominoes
The rules of Dominoes in plain words, as the app plays them.
The goal
Play tiles that match the open ends until you're out, or until nobody can play. Reach the target score first to win the game.
Playing a tile
A tile joins an open end when one of its halves matches that end's value. Doubles join crosswise. Tap a tile to play it if it fits one end, or to see the ends it could go to.
In All Fives, a spinner's cross sides open once both its line sides have a tile.
No legal play
Draw from the boneyard until you can play (Draw and All Fives), or pass if the boneyard is empty or the game is Block.
Scoring
Domino: going out first scores the pips left in the other hands. Blocked: the side with the fewest pips scores the difference.
All Fives also scores during play whenever the open ends add up to a multiple of 5.
Hints
Hint suggests the best play once per hand, with the reason in plain words.