Domino is a game that involves placing dominoes edge to edge against one another to form lines or angular patterns. The games can be simple, scoring based on number of pips in the winning player’s hand, or more complex, involving blocking. Dominoes can also be used to teach number recognition and math skills. The word “domino” derives from the Latin domini, meaning “lord” or “master.”
The first thing you need to know about domino is that there are many different kinds of domino games. The most basic is for two players. You start with a set of 28 dominoes, which is referred to as the stock or boneyard. The players draw seven tiles from the stock, which they place face down on their side of the table. When the player has no more tiles to play, they must draw from the stock again until they have a complete domino in their hand. They then place their domino on the edge of their opponent’s piece, whose pips can be seen. The game continues until the winning player has a complete domino in their hand.
There are many other ways to play domino, and each of them requires different rules. For example, in the scoring game bergen, each domino must match a previous one in value. This can be difficult, because you must have a certain amount of pips to be able to do this. Other games include block games, such as matador and chicken foot. These are more fun and can help children build motor skills. Dominoes can be used to teach counting and number recognition, as well as simple addition and subtraction.
The dominoes themselves are made of a rigid material such as wood or plastic and are called bones, pieces, men, or cards. They can be made to look like dice, or they can have a decorative theme. The most popular dominoes are the double six-sided ones, but there are also other shaped and colored dominoes.
While dominoes are most commonly played with a set of 28, each piece represents a single result of throwing two six-sided dice (2d6), with each face either blank or bearing from one to six pips or spots. The earliest known Western domino sets date to the mid-18th century. The Chinese developed their own similar games.
Domino has superhuman agility and speed, and is proficient in all forms of armed and unarmed combat. She is trained in various martial arts and covert operations techniques, including demolitions, and possesses an instinctive ability to calculate the odds of improbable events occurring within her line of sight. This manifests as a psionic aura that alters probabilities, granting her good luck while causing her opponents to suffer bad fortune.
After surviving an assault by Prime Sentinels, Domino joined X-Force and began dating Cable (Josh Brolin). She later fought alongside a S.H.I.E.L.D. incarnation of the Six Pack against a corrupt director, Malcolm Colcord, and later joined another X-Force team to safeguard mutants from the clandestine Weapon X program. After being possessed by the undying alien Aentaeros and forced to kill her rival Semijan, Domino was revived with alien technology grafts and returned to her freelance mercenary work.