Dominoes 03-01 (reversed) pairs, and generic backsides. Dominoes Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with rectangular "domino" tiles. 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", "nips", or "dobs") or is blank. The backs of the dominoes in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design. The domino gaming pieces make up a domino set, sometimes called a "deck" or "pack". The traditional Sino-European domino set consists of 28 dominoes, featuring all combinations of spot counts
42 (dominoes) pass, the dominoes are reshuffled and the hand restarts, or in some variations, the dealer must bid 30. The 42 points consist of one (1) point for each of the seven tricks, plus 35 points from the five "count" dominoes whose total pips are a multiple of 5 (the 6-4 and double-5 for 10 points each, as well as the 4-1, 3-2, and 5-blank for 5 points each). The reward for attaining the bid is typically a tally mark, or in numerical scoring, the reward is the point total the player bid in a race to 250. The bids can