Dominoes

Dominoes, the name of a game, usually played with 28 oblong, flat pieces of ivory or bone, &c., called cards, each of which bears two numbers marked by points from blank to six. The player wins who has first played out his cards, or, if this has been found impossible, who has the fewest points on the tablets still remaining. Regular domino players recognise only the two-handed games—viz. the draw game, and its variation the matador game, for a description of which a manual of games should be consulted. The game is seemingly of Italian origin, and has spread into all countries of the world; but nowhere is it so popular as in the cafés of France and Belgium.