Domino goat rules
Domino goat rules
If we talk about board games that have received universal approval and recognition, then dominoes are among the first. Of course, dominoes have become very widespread in the territory of the former USSR, as a game for everyone. Despite its origins and simple rules, dominoes are one of the most beloved and easy to play classic board games.
Oddly enough, the most common type of domino game in Russia is not the classic domino, but the "goat" domino.
The rules of the goat domino game are somewhat different from the usual ones. About them and will be discussed further.
As in the main dominoes, there are 7 doubles in the “goat” of 28 bones with numbers from 0 to 6, there is a bazaar from which players collect bones if there is no suitable one in their hands. If you are familiar with the principle of playing dominoes, then you will quickly understand everything.
In goat dominoes, the first player to go is not with a big double, as in usual dominoes, but with a 1:1 double. Only then are doubles played from 2:2 to 6:6. If there are no such doubles, the double goes 0:0. If the players do not have doubles in their hands, then the move starts with the highest knuckle, for example, 5:6, etc.
At the beginning of the round, even with the number of players - 4, all players take not 5, but 7 bones "closed" from the "bazaar". The bazaar is all the bones that were not taken, which lie with the values down (they are not visible). The rules for taking bones from the market are the same as in the classic dominoes.
The game of domino "goat" can end if one of the people left, that is, played all the bones from his hand, or someone made a fish - a situation in which further play is impossible. A fish is a situation where each end of the domino line ends with the same number, for example, 1. At the same time, there are no bones with units left on the hands.
If there was a fish, then the rules of the goat domino game prescribe to count the points separately for each player, just as in the classic domino.
Domino goat scoring is very interesting. Instead of just adding all the values, proceed as follows. If the player has less than 12 points, for example, 9, then they are written with a + sign. The + sign means that if the player wins the next round, i.e. "out", those points will disappear.
The winner of the domino "goat" is the player who scored the least number of points according to the results of 5, 10 or 15 games.
Now that you know the rules of the goat domino game.
