Dominoes

Domino is a matching game with rectangular tiles, usually made of wood or plastic. Professional tiles generally have a size of about 56 × 28 × 13 mm. The blocks are divided into two fields, in which between zero and depending on the size of the set of up to 18 eyes are shown in each of all possible combinations. After the highest score in the game, a distinction is double 6, double 9s, double 12er, double 15er and 18er double domino sets. In order to facilitate the game, the numbers of different eye fields are often colored differently.

  • 7.1 100 characters for 28 Stones
  • 7.2 Computer representation

History

The origin of the dominoes game is unclear. Chinese roots and the import of the stones by Marco Polo are suspected but can not be proven with absolute certainty. The name can be at least close to monastic lineage, since it can come from that long black coat once, which was jokingly referred to as Domino, or from Benedicamus domino, the shout of victory of a passionate playing abbot.

The first Domino German sports club " FIDO Germany eV" was founded on 22 August, 2004 Hagenow.

Rule

The basic rule of most domino games is alternately stones with fields perform concatenation of the same face value. There the player with the highest double stone ( eg in a double 6 dominoes with 6/6), after previously the stones were shuffled and distributed. Depending on the number of participants stones remain, forming the talon. Those who can not create, draws two stones from the Talon or off, when this is used up. Who first created all the stones is the winner. His eyes numbers of the remaining stones of the players will be credited as plus points. Some variants also be played with a " divisor ". In this case, the player receives bonus points if, after his train, the sum of the eyes can be split at the ends of the domino snake without remainder by the divisor. Common divisors are:

  • 9- Domino: Divisor 5
  • 12- Domino: Divisor 7
  • 15er Domino: Divisor 9
  • 18er Domino: Divisor 11

For example, if in a game with the 12- Domino, the sums of the free ends is in the Domino snake equal to 21, after a player has created his stone, it will receive 21 by 7 = 3 bonus points.

As with playing cards and dice, so can also be played with dominoes a lot of different games. The winner is usually, who first put all of his checkers. Some variants are called:

  • Hungarian Domino ( You may invest as long as you can. Only then will the player 's turn )
  • Italian Domino ( The sum of the two eye pieces to play a role )
  • Double Domino ( The stones are not next to each other, but are superimposed and a half left visible in each case )
  • Bukidomino, a popular in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century gambling.
  • Domino Whist, a variant of the block dominoes for four players in two partnerships
  • Pai Gow, a gamble with the 32 stones of the Chinese domino game that is offered in casinos in the United States, Macau and Australia
  • Dominosa, in a solo game, invented by OSAdler, the anhängte the first letter of his name runs, like a solitaire.
  • Pictures Domino, a children's version with images printed, usually thought of as a learning game.

These games have been developed mainly in the American Bible Belt because there playing cards are frowned upon as "the devil's prayer book " the game with dominoes but ( barely) is tolerated. Conversely, there is the well-known of the domino games fro applying in certain card games, such as in Fan Tan, which is therefore also known as Domino cards.

The number of tokens is calculated as follows, where n is the highest available in-game face value. The double - 6 domino thus contains stones.

Domino is played with four players in the Caribbean (see Domino Whist ). Similar to the German Skat, it is important to remember which stones were laid out by which player. If you play this version of Domino, we see relatively quickly that it was no longer dealing here with a breeze. The goal is to take off his stones first. Everyone puts in a clockwise direction respectively from a stone, if any, can be applied. If not, you have to suspend until one can create.

African Dominoes denotes no form of the dominoes game, but playing dice with sharp, ie not rounded edges, which are used in craps.

Math Brain Teasers

In such tasks given figures are to be formed, in which the eyes sums in the resulting rows and columns (and sometimes diagonals ) are equal to or fulfill some other condition. In addition, restrictions may take place, which dominoes may be used for the task.

Game of skill

Dominoes can be placed on its narrow side, in which case they are in a stable but fragile equilibrium. This means that such a domino can be knocked down by a slight bump while also adjacent gems to fall brings ( domino effect ). This operation is used to bring a whole range or surface constructed in this way stones by striking a single stone drop. The skill game, of course, does not consist in Umfallenlassen, but in setting up the stones.

For this game, stones are often used without eye print. If the stones are colored in different colors, resulting in the toppling interesting graphic effects.

See also: Domino Day

Domino World Champion

Always at the end of the year there will be a decentralized FIDO domino world championship. If come together groups of five players, three rounds of play with a twelve - domino game on divisor Seven. The results of the three games will be sent to FIDO, where the analysis made ​​and the champion will be announced the following day.

Previous domino world champion

  • 2013: Guðný Ósk Scheving, Norway
  • 2012: During Chris, Switzerland
  • 2011: Hege Lofthus, Norway
  • 2010: Thomas Caflisch, Switzerland
  • 2009: Thomas Egeli, Switzerland
  • 2008: Guðný Ósk Scheving, Iceland
  • 2007: Alex Joss, Switzerland
  • 2006: Marina Despotovic, Switzerland
  • 2005: Irène Bader, Switzerland
  • 2003: Ingo Rick Mann, Germany
  • 2002: Verena Huser, Switzerland
  • 2001: Luzia Würsch, Switzerland
  • 1999: Roland Behring, Germany
  • 1998: Frank Lindemann, Germany
  • 1997: Roswitha Siedelberg, Germany
  • 1996: Sigrid Sagevik, Norway
  • 1995: Anne Marie Hartvigsen, Norway

Maria Theresa Cup

The second most important after the World Cup competition annual event in European Domino sport is still before the European Championship of Maria- Theresa Cup, which was first played in 2002 in Schleswig-Holstein Hochdonn. Since then, he was held in Kollow (Schleswig -Holstein), Hagenow (Mecklenburg- Vorpommern) and Schwarmstedt (Lower Saxony ) each in late summer.

Standardization of dominoes

Since version 5.1 in April 2008, the stones of the double 6 dominoes are available in horizontal and vertical design as Unicode block dominoes ( Domino Tile Symbols U 1 F030 -U 1 F093 ) part of the Unicode standard, and thus also of the standard ISO / IEC 10646th stones other variants have not yet been standardized there.

100 characters for 28 Stones

The code block contains 100 different characters, although as above calculates a double 6 domino game includes only 28 different stones. Seven of them have in the two halves of an identical number of eyes ( 0 | 0-6 | 6). The remaining 21 stones can be placed with the larger number first eyes or eyes with the smaller number first ( eg 5 | 2 or 2 | 5). Since rotations are not trivial to map the character encoding, so each a separate character is used for both possibilities. In addition, each domino has a back which is encoded separately. This gives 7 21 21 1 = 50 characters. Also differs according to horizontal and vertical alignment, the result is 2 × 50 = 100 characters.

Computer representation

So far, hardly contains one of the widespread character fonts for dominoes. There, a substitute representation is then used instead of a domino, the so-called Replacement Glyph; while it may be a rectangular box, is included in that, if necessary, the hexadecimal value of the character. Order but the domino appears to get, requires a font to be used, which contains a suitable glyph for the corresponding Unicode character.

Among the few fonts that contain characters for the code block dominoes heard Code2001.

Domino in art

The Domino game has also inspired many artists: from Honoré Daumier comes a well-known cartoon of domino players. In the first scene of Umberto Giordano's opera Fedora the servant of Count Andreyevich play a game of dominoes.

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