How to Match Playing Dominoes

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Nathan Holsey, author of the book The Dominologist. On behalf of expertvillage.com, in this clip I’d like to talk to you about how to play dominoes, laying down bones and matching. If you’d like more information, you can refer to my website thedominologist.com. The main object in dominos and I’m going to place this double 2 down. Let’s say I have the domino, so it’s my turn to throw the first down. Let’s say I’m comfortable with 2’s in my hand. Well the next player who plays has to match and I have colored dominos so you can see that a green will match a green or a 2 will match a 2, a 2 can connect to a 2, so the next players play a 5 deuce, a 5-2. It’s mine turn, I have option to play on the 2 or the 5 but my choice is to play on the 2. Now there are 4 options or 3 options, 5, 2, 1, and 2 again. So there are 2 options for 2 and it’s my opponent’s play, so my opponent would play let’s say on the 5. So the 5 matches the 5, then again, it becomes my play. My option will be to play on the one, basically, matching dominoes. You just want to make sure that you always have an option leaving yourself possibly a 2 in your hand, a 6, or a blank where I only have and I’m going to show you my hand, only a blank. If this is opponent were to play over there, I would not be able to play unless he played a 3 or a blank 5 or etc. "