Marfil Dominoes

Nine clubs keep a domino table, from a courtyard under a lemon tree to the Grand Salon, and every one has regulars with their own habits and one rule the club before never played. Win at a table and the next club opens its door.

Dominoes against computer rivals or two to four friends online: Draw, Block and All Fives, partners, a nine-club circuit, lessons and a daily hand.

Each player takes seven tiles from a double-six set (five each when four play a drawing game, ten each with the double-nine set). The first hand is opened by whoever holds the highest double; after that the winner of a hand opens the next. On your turn set one tile against an open end so that the two touching halves show the same number: tap a lifted tile to play it, or drag it onto the table. A tile that fits more than one end is picked up first, and you tap the place you want it. Doubles lie across the line. With no tile that fits: in Draw you take tiles from the boneyard until one fits, in Block you knock to pass, in Bergen you draw one tile and pass if it does not fit. The hand ends when a player goes out or when nobody can play. Going out scores the pips left in the opponents' hands; a blocked hand goes to the side with the fewest pips, for the difference. In All Fives the open ends are added up after every tile and a count that divides by five scores that many points; the first double is the spinner, and once both of its line sides are covered tiles can go on its other two sides as well. In Bergen a play that leaves the same number at both ends scores 2 points, or 3 when one of those ends is a double. The match goes to the first side to reach the target. With four at the table you can play two against two, partners sitting opposite. Keys: Tab and the arrow keys move between tiles and places, Enter plays, D draws, K knocks to pass, H asks for a hint. To play friends online, press Play with a friend, pick two to four players and the rules, and send the link; bots fill the empty seats.