Dominoes is a tile-based game, which originates from early 13th century China. Although it’s oriental in origin, the modern popularized version of the game was introduced by the Italians in the mid 18th century. Dominoes can be played with either 2 or 4 players. The game starts with the players shuffling all of the tiles face-down and distributing 5 to each when they are 4 players. In 2 player game each player receives 7 tiles. The initial starting player is chosen at random from amongst them and places the first tile face up to start the game. Each player must place a tile where the amount of pips on at least one half of it matches the number of pips on the exposed ends of the tile chain. If they cannot, then they pick up more tiles until they get one that can. The first player to place all of their tiles wins and scores points based on the number of pips on the opponents’ remaining tiles.