The Devil's Dominoes

There are a number of games which are attempts to replace playing cards with dominoes. The degree to which they succeed seems to depend on how much they follow the flavor of the original game. The closer they try to stay to the rules original game, the weaker the results. It is better to borrow principles from the card games and then adapt them to dominoes than it is to try to construct an exact one to one mapping from playing cards to dominoes.

The Devil's Dominoes

Generally speaking, the dominoes are played as if one half of the tile is a suit and the other half is the pip of the suit, called the suit number. Obviously, a tile can be played one of two ways (except for the doubles) while a playing card cannot. In trick taking games, players may be required to follow suit whenever possible or to play tiles in the trump suit only as trumps.

Alongside these there are games in all these families and more that use dominoes in a way similar to playing-cards but are not adaptations of card games. They include most of the games using Chinese dominoes, which have their own traditional suit system and ways of forming combinations. 041b061a72