What the Spinner is for Dominoes

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Nathan Holsey, author of the book The Dominologist. On behalf of expertvillage.com, in this clip we’ll be talking about the spinner. If you’d like to know more about double 6 dominos, please refer to my website thedominologist.com. In the beginning of the game, you usually lay the double 6 first. Once this double is laid down, it becomes the spinner, that means all the dominos can be played on each side. First, you have to close up the sides of the domino and then you can play on the open ends only on that particular double. There may be more doubles on the skeleton but you can only play on the very first double that was made. So in this case, the spinner is the double 6 and it is fully covered with dominos, leaving a 3, a 1, a 5 and a 2 open, which has been played on the spinner. After the first round, any domino can start a new round. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the doubled but the very first double laid to the board now becomes the spinner. So the double 6 does not have to be laid first in order to start the game. "