Dominoes are a fun way to build and stack shapes, lines or grids that form pictures when they fall and 3D structures like towers and pyramids. You can also use them to create tracks for trains, cars and other vehicles, or just play one of the many games that can be played with dominoes. You can even use them to make art – just draw an outline on paper of the track you want the dominoes to fall in, then add arrows and calculate how many dominoes you’d need for your design.
A domino is a flat, thumbsized rectangular block with a line down its center that divides it visually into two parts, each bearing from one to six pips or dots, and is sometimes called a bone, cards, men or tiles. When used for playing games, they are normally stacked to form lines and angular patterns. A complete set of dominoes (also known as a domino game) typically contains 28 such pieces. Each domino has a unique value, and a traditional set is often called a double-six set because the highest piece has six spots on both ends.
There are a wide variety of games that can be played with dominoes, but the most common involves blocking and scoring points by laying down a piece whose value matches that of an adjacent piece. A number of games are also played using only a few tiles, such as solitaire and trick-taking. These games were adapted from card games and were once popular in some regions to circumvent religious prohibitions against playing cards.
The earliest recorded use of the word domino was in 1750. The etymology is unclear, but it may be from the French, where the word originally denoted a long hooded cloak worn together with a mask at masquerades, or from the Latin dominus, oblique case of dominus, meaning lord or master.
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When a domino is set up properly, it can cause a very impressive cascade of destruction when a single domino is knocked over. The same is true in stories: if a story’s scenes are spaced too far apart or the next scene doesn’t feel logically connected to the previous one, readers will likely lose interest. Fortunately, there are several tools and techniques for plotting a story that can help you avoid domino disasters.