Basic Tips for Washing the Dominoes

Series Summary

Dominoes is a game played using pieces, each called a domino or a bone, that calls for strategy and discernment of statistical probabilities. Modern dominoes has been played for at least 300 years and most likely began in the Dominican Republic. Under the “Dominoes” heading there exists many different types of Dominoes games including: Moon, 42, Basic Trains, Mexican Trains, and Chickenfoot. Dominoes is easy and fun to play with one, two, three, or four players.

Learn from professional Domino Player Nathan Holsey as he teaches basic lessons for playing dominoes such as: washing the dominoes, arranging the hand in double six, how and when to use the bone yard, playing off of the spinner, laying down a bone and matching it, recognizing a bogus play, using doubles, common combination, slamming the dominoes, keeping score, house rules, counting the board, and dumping.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Nathan Holsey, author of the book The Dominologist. On behalf of expertvillage.com, I’m going to teach you how to play dominoes. In this clip, we’ll be talking about washing dominoes or shuffled and mixed well is how we refer to it, shuffled and mixed well. If you’d like more information you can contact me at thedominologist.com. When washing dominoes, you just want to make sure that you take your hands and mix them very well. We call it washing, we call mixing or shuffling, shuffle the dominoes. The whole idea is to make sure that none of the dominoes that were in play are next to each other. Your opponents sometimes feel if the dominoes aren’t washed well, they’re hand won’t be as well, so this is washing the dominoes. When you’re done just push them away and your opponents will pull 7 or 9 dominoes. "