Dominos – How to Play Dominos
Dominos is a multinational pizza company that operates many franchised stores worldwide. Its global headquarters is located in the suburb of Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States. The company has a total of around 145,000 employees and is considered to be the world’s largest restaurant chain. Domino’s is known for its pizza delivery service, as well as other fast food options such as pasta and cakes. The company is a leader in the delivery industry, and its success has opened up an entire new market for the company. The company has also been successful in integrating technology into its business practices, as evidenced by its delivery tracker app.
A domino is a small, flat rectangular game piece that has identifying markings on one side and blank or identically patterned on the other. It is typically twice as long as wide and is made to be exactly half as thick as it is wide so that it will stand on its edge without falling over. Over the years, a number of different materials have been used to make dominoes, including wood, bone, ivory, and plastic. The most common domino sets have 28 tiles in a double-six configuration, although larger sets exist.
Each player takes a turn placing a tile on the table positioning it so that it is touching one end of an existing domino chain. The resulting chain develops a snake-line shape as the tiles are placed one after another. Each tile must match a previously laid domino in both direction and type, meaning that it has to have the same number on each of its ends or be a single sided double, which can only be played to an existing double.
The first player to lay a domino, usually by drawing lots or by who has the most tiles in their hand, places the first tile onto the chain. The other players then draw and play their tiles, matching them as they wish to a previous tile or playing them to an empty spot on the chain. When a tile is played to a double, it must be positioned so that the two matching ends are fully touching.
Normally, players score by awarding points according to the numbers on opposing players’ dominoes. Depending on the rules, doubles may count as one or two (a 6-6 counts as 12, for example) and double-blanks may count as either 0 or 14. The player who awards the most points in a given number of rounds wins the game. Dominoes can also be used as a building material in mechanical models such as Rube Goldberg machines. Often, the machines are designed to demonstrate principles of mechanical engineering and physics. They are also used to explore a range of aesthetic and social issues. For example, some artists have been inspired by the domino effect in their works, and others have used it as a metaphor for the collision of events that can occur when one event causes a chain reaction that has far-reaching consequences.