Dominoes, schmominoes
Last weekend Matte and I got out our set of 120 dominoes we got from his nephews as a wedding gift (the only item we registered for at Target).
I’m pretty new to the dominoes thing, although I did play it with Matte and his parents last Christmas (and lost miserably). When Matte and I started playing last Saturday, I won like five hands (do they call dominoes games “hands?” I dunno.) in a row. I was quite pleased with myself. When we started the next game, Matte put down his doubles tile and I looked in my tiles to find something to play on it. I had nothing, so I had to draw a tile. And another. And another. And still another. And one more. And then again. And again. and again. Until the thirty-second tile I drew was playable. I drew thirty-two tiles on one play, giving myself a total of 39 tiles in my hand before I had a play. Now, I’m not sure we’re playing right, because I think there should be a limit to the number of dominoes one can draw before the other opponent lets them cheat or something. But I eventually drew something useful, and having more than quintupled the number of tiles in my hand, I had plenty of dots to choose from throughout the game.
So, guess who won this hand?
No, not me.
Matte won. But he cleared his last tile, and only got 19 points from my hand. Nineteen measly points. That, my friends, is what they call strategy.
Five to one is still pretty darn good. AND, I’m impressed that you could conjure up schmominoes!
Yeah, I’m impressed with the schmominoes, too. I would have titled it the old “Dominoes Mother F@cker!” But I’m gangsta.
My family used to play dominoes “back in the day” and as far as I can remember (but I’m old so don’t hold me to this) you can draw every damn dominoe if need be.
Old skool games for a youngun!
I don’t even know what kind of dominoes game you’re playing with that many tiles.
Weirdo.
What game were you playing? My brother got us stuck on a game called ‘Mexican Train’ so that’s what we always play. In that you would only draw one domino. Then, if you couldn’t play, you stick a penny or marker on your train so someone else can play on it.
Now, we have been known to draw almost all the dominoes out of the bone pile before we could actually start the game because no one had the right double.