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THE HISTORY OF DOMINOES

(The following is an excerpt from "Wickipedia." We encourage you to click here
for a very interesting, comprehensive, and indepth coverage of Dominoes.)

Dominoes (or dominos) generally refers to the collective gaming pieces making up
a domino set (sometimes called a deck or pack) or to the subcategory of tile
games played with domino pieces. In
the area of mathematical tilings and polyominoes, the word domino often refers
to any rectangle formed from joining two congruent squares edge to edge.

The traditional Sino-European domino set consists of 28 dominoes, colloquially
nicknamed bones, cards, tiles, tickets, stones, or spinners. Each domino is a
rectangular tile with a line dividing its face
into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called
pips) or is blank. The backs of the dominoes in a set are indistinguishable,
either blank or having some common design.
A domino set is a generic gaming device, similar to playing cards or dice, in
that a variety of games can be played with a set.

Domino pieces were historically carved from ivory or animal bone with small,
round pips of inset ebony. The game's name comes from the pieces' resemblance to
Venetian Carnival masks known as
domini, which were white with black spots. These masks were so named, in turn,
because they resembled French priests' winter hoods, being black on the outside
and white on the inside. The
name ultimately derives from the Latin dominus, meaning "lord" or "master."

The oldest domino sets have been dated from around 1120 A.D. Modern dominoes, as
most of the Western world knows them, however, appear to be a Chinese invention.
They were apparently
derived from cubic dice, which had been introduced into China from India some
time in the distant past. Each domino originally represented one of the 21
results of throwing two dice. One half of each domino is set with the pips from
one die and the other half contains the pips from the second die.

Chinese sets also introduce duplicates of some throws and divide the dominoes
into two classes: military and civil. Chinese dominoes are also longer than
typical European dominoes. Over time Chinese dominoes also evolved into the tile
set used to play Mah Jong, a game which swept across the United States in the
early to mid 1920s and has enjoyed moderate popularity, especially in its
"solitaire" form, since that time.

The early 18th century witnessed dominoes making their way to Europe, making
their first appearance in Italy. The game changed somewhat in the translation
from Chinese to the European
culture. European domino sets contain neither class distinctions nor the
duplicates that went with them. Instead, European sets contain seven additional
dominoes, with six of these representing the
values that result from throwing a single die with the other half of the tile
left blank, and the seventh domino representing the blank-blank (0-0)
combination.

Ivory Dominoes were routinely used in 19th century rural England in the settling
of disputes over traditional grazing boundaries, and were commonly referred to
as "bonesticks" (see Hartley, Land Law in West Lancashire in the mid- 19th
Century, Farm Gazette, March 1984).


MEXICAN TRAIN

Mexican Train is a member of the Trains family of games. There are several
variations of names and rules associated with the Trains family including
Mexican Express, Mexican Dominoes, and Longana.

 


 


CHICKEN FOOT

Chicken Foot dominoes is one of the more recent versions of the Train domino
family. It is also known as Chicken Dominoes, Chickie Dominoes and Chickie."

 


ENJOY MEXICAN TRAIN OR CHICKEN FOOT DOMINOES.

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