Across Rules

DOMINOES RULES: INTERNATIONAL TEAM PAIRS COMPETITION

Dominos is a game that is played with 28 fichas/dominos or bones depending where you are from.

Team tourney is played with one team versus another. All scores are per team and not per pair.

The style of playing is that of pairs at the table. However, the team gets the point of every win.

  1. Each game is for one point
  2. The team that gets to 50 points overall wins the set
  3. In the semifinals and finals the team that reaches 75 points win the match.
  4. A team can ask for a change after 6 games are played so any combination of 6 can get a

change (6-0, 5-1. 4-2, 3-3).

  1. On a change a captain only can do one of the following:
  2. Remove both players and take them out of the ring and replacing them with another pair

outside of the ring

  1. Remove one player out of the ring and replacing him,/her with another payer from

outside the ring

  1. Do a draw cross meaning take both pairs from one table and place them at another table
  2. EXCHANGING ONE PLAYER FOR ANOTHER WHO IS CURRENTLY PLAYING IS NOT

ALLOWED

  1. Each table will; have a score sheet
  2. There will be a captain’s score sheet
  3. The referee/official scorer will keep the official score.
  4. The amount of rounds will be dependent on the numbers of entries.

THE PLAY AT THE TABLE

  1. Your partner will be the person sitting in front of you or across from you.
  2. Dominos are shuffled faced down
  3. Each player draws 7 dominoes
  4. The player with double-6 plays first
  5. The player to the right plays next
  6. They continues that way until one player has played all dominoes or the game is blocked
  7. The player who plays their seven dominos first, wins.
  8. If the game is blocked (meaning no one can play anymore (fichas), the person with

lowest count wins.

  1. The winning team can choose which player poses the next game.
  2. If two players on opposing teams score the same amount of points on the block game,

then no one wins. The next game is played for two points.

  1. Double six is posed and the person to the right plays after.
  2. The winner of the next game gets two points.
  3. The maximum amount of points for any game is 2.
  4. THE FIRST PAIR TO WIN SIX STRAIGHT GAMES WIN THE HAND
  5. ALL REMAINING DOMINOES/FICHAS WILL BE TURNED FACED UP AT THE END OF

THE GAME.

  1. If there is a rack available, all dominoes must be in the rack. No questions to the board

may be asked. If a person touches a domino, that domino must be played. If the person

removes their hand without playing the domino, they would automatically lose the game.

  1. If there is no rack, then the term “dominoes to board” must be asked. Everyone

including the person asking the question must PLACE THEIR DOMINOES ON THE

TABLE. NO VERBAL RESPONSES. After two warnings in a set the player will lose all

games each time they question individually or choose to answer their partner verbally.

  1. When there is no rack, when a player attempts to play a domino, they cannot return the

domino to their hand. If that were to happen then the player will lose the game

automatically.

  1. If a player says pass that is considered a play. Knock is NOT a pass. Once a person

says pass they cannot play again. If a domino is found in their hand, they will lose the

game automatically. This means if a player takes an unnecessary pass, the player will

lose the game and the other team will be awarded one point.

  1. If the player plays the incorrect domino, then they will lose the game automatically. The

point will be awarded to the next team.

  1. If a domino can play but it is played incorrectly, the player can fix it without penalty.

However, if the next player exposes their domino before it is fixed, then the pl;ayer loses

the game for a mixed matched card.

  1. All dominoes must be played on the board, put the domino at the end. DO NOT

THROW OUT DOMINOES. After two warnings, by the referee. The player will lose the

game.

  1. If the score is 1-1, there is no start over. The score of the next game will be 2-1. If the

game that follows is a derby then the score after the win will be 3-1.

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