Re: UNO dominos

I found a copy of UNO dominoes at a garage sale a few years ago, but I
found it disappointing. It definitely did not contain all possible
combinations, and I don't think there was any particular pattern to
which combinations were included. Sorry I can't be more specific, but
I gave it away.
If you like dominoes and you like UNO, I'd recommend you design your
own hybrid rather than following the UNO dominoes pattern.
Some suggestions:
1. Rather than UNO's special cards, just use the numbers on regular
dominoes as in Crazy Eights, or the more sophisticated game Craits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craits
I don't know whether it would work better to base the action on the
matching side of the domino you just played or the open side. My guess
is that using the open side would work better if you try to include
the count feature from Craits.
2. If you use the numbers, you'll probably want to use at least a
double 9 set of dominoes. I've found that double 9 and higher games
work better when they have some method of creating multiple branches
in the layout, otherwise it's too hard to find matching dominoes when
you only have four places to play. Chickenfoot is a good example that
creates a highly branched layout.
http://www.domino-games.com/domino-rules/chickenfoot-rules.html

These are just ideas, I haven't tested any of them.

If you're looking for different domino games and you like making game
pieces, check out the piecepack game Ley Lines.
http://www.piecepack.org/
http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/LeyLines

good luck,
Don

--- In BoardGameDesign@..., "Tim Schutz" <yahoo <at> ...> wrote:
>
> From the looks of the pictures on the boardgamegeek
> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3839 it looks like they combined
> some things on the dominoes. Example a "7" on one side of a domino and
> a "Skip" on the other. I would guess all the card are there someway,
> just combined together so there are less UNO dominoes then UNO cards.
> Tim Schutz
> tjgames.com
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > I recently made a nice set of wooden dominos.
> > 
> > I like to make a set of "UNO dominos" to play with my daughter.
> > I read that is contains 0 to 8 numbers and 5 word tiles.
> > and these are in four colours.  this gives 14! combinations (tiles)
> But there are only 81 tile in a set.
> > Dose any one know what combinations are not included.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Barry
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>

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