Matador (domino game) number of spots), each player gets five dominoes, with the leftover dominoes set aside in an area known as the "boneyard." During play, players must connect either end of the domino line not with a matching number on either end, but one causing the two connecting ends to have a total of seven pips, i. e. a six-spot end must be connected with a one-spot one, a four-spot with a three-spot, and a two-spot with a five-spot. Doubles are placed endwise and count the same as single dominoes. Blanks are closed to play of any domino other than a "matador."
The Lilac Domino The Lilac Domino Der lila Domino (The Lilac Domino) is an operetta in three acts by Charles Cuvillier. The original German libretto is by Emmerich von Gatti and , about a gambling count who falls in love at a masquerade ball with a noblewoman wearing a lilac domino mask. The operetta achieved far greater popularity in Britain and America than it did in Germany or France. Although "The Lilac Domino" became Cuvillier's greatest international hit, he won success in his native Paris with the operetta "La reine s'amuse" (1912; "The Naughty Princess" in London, 1920). He was popular in Germany