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• ISBN: 9780762481231
• Physical Description: xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
• Edition: First edition: June 2023.
• Publisher: New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2023.
• Note: Includes index.
• Formatted Contents: Part 1: history and strategy -- History of dominoes -- About dominoes -- Strategies --Critical thinking -- The benefits of playing dominoes -- Part 2: the games -- Before you play -- Bidding games -- Bingo -- Eighty -- Eighty-eight -- Eighty-four -- Forty-two (aka Texas forty-two/four-hand Texas/Domino rounce) -- Seventy-nine -- Blocking games -- Add-em-up -- Blind dominoes -- Block/allies -- Chickenfoot (variation of train) -- Cross dominoes (aka cross) -- Cuban dominoes -- Cyprus -- Domino whist -- Doubles -- Draw (aka draw [or block] dominoes [with buying], the draw [or block] game, domino big six, double six dominoes) -- Fortress -- Fours -- Latin American match -- Maltese cross (aka double cross) -- Matador (aka master dominoes, seven-up, Russian dominoes, Russian cross, all sevens) -- Mexican train -- One-arm Joe -- Pass -- Sebastopol (aka malakoff) -- Super dominoes -- Tiddle-a-wink (tiddlywink) -- Domino card games -- Basic draw poker -- Bisley -- Clock -- Concentration -- Gin Rummy -- Go fish -- Hearts -- Linger longer -- Magic -- Mexican flip -- Old maid -- Spades -- Dominoes played in Asia -- Pai gow (aka: pai jo, pai kow, make nine, card nine) -- Tien gow (aka: tien kow, tian jiu, heaven & nine, sky nine) -- Tiu u (aka fishing) -- Scoring games -- All threes -- Bergen (aka double-header) -- Five-up (aka West Coast dominoes) -- Merry go round -- Muggins (aka all fives, straight dominoes) -- Seven-toed-pete (aka seven-go) -- Sniff (aka East Coast dominoes) -- Threes and fives -- Single player games -- Baronet -- Castle rock -- Five-up solitaire -- Good neighbors -- Luzon -- Patience/little harp -- Poka dots/twelves -- Squeeze -- Stack -- Sympathy -- The big clock -- The buccaneer -- The jubilee -- The sultan -- Traffic -- Part 3: dominoes culture -- The culture of dominoes -- Tournaments -- Online dominoes.

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