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Menu Menu Home Gambling Blog Dominos and Domino Art 29/05/2023 by margatemuseum A domino is a rectangular block of wood or ivory with a line down the middle that divides it visually into two squares. The sides of each square are marked with an arrangement of dots or spots, called pips, similar to those on a die, although some pips may be blank. In most domino games, each end of a domino bears a number which is used to identify it, and additional tiles can be placed only on the open ends of this domino.
Dominos are used for a variety of games, including positional, draw, and block. They are typically stacked one on top of the other, and players take turns putting down dominoes edge to edge so that the adjacent faces of each domino match up, either in an identical pattern (e.g., 5 to 5) or form some specified total. The game may be won by the first player to complete this matching or by the player with the highest total at the end of a chain of dominoes.
The most common domino sets are made of polymer, a material which is inexpensive and durable, but which has a somewhat brittle quality that can result in the breaking of individual tiles in long chains. Historically, dominoes were made from a number of natural materials, including bone, silver lip oyster shell (mother of pearl), ivory, and dark hardwoods such as ebony. These sets are often more valuable than polymer ones, but they have a much higher cost and require special skills to make.