![\"\"](\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Dominoes-1.png\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nTo this day, no one really knows how or why the game is called dominoes. Some historians believe it was named after the black hooded accessory worn by priests many years ago. The best story I\u2019ve heard about the name is that dominoes were developed as a game by French monks and named after the first lines of Psalm 110, which in Latin reads Disit Dominos mea<\/em> (\u201csaid my Lord.\u201d) The modern version of dominoes comes from Europe. It first appeared there in the early 18th century, The modern European domino sets differ from the Chines sets \u2014the European versions have 28 tiles, whereas the Chinese ones use 32 tiles. Chinese sets were initially designed to represent all the possible \u201cfaces\u201d or throws of two 6-sided dice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Netherlands has held an annual event since 1986 called Domino Day. It has set records including the longest domino spiral, the highest domino climb, and the largest domino structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The game inspired the phrase \u201cdomino effect,\u201d in reference to small events compounding to create a catastrophe. Standing the times closely together or their sides and then tapping the first one to cause the second and then the third and eventually all of the times in the line to topple is what is known as \u201cthe domino effect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The game of dominoes has inspired a popular pizza restaurant to use a domino tile as it logo. Domino\u2019s Pizza was established on December 9, 1960, in Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The spots on dominoes are known as \u201cpips,\u201d and the game pieces are called \u201ctiles\u201d \u2014 but my grandad always called them \u201cbones.\u201d Playing games with the grandkids is always fun, but a lot of games they\u2019re familiar with, I\u2019ve never heard of \u2014 but they\u2019re still fun and maybe more fun as I listen to the grandkid\u2019s explanation of how they\u2019re played. … Continue reading
The oldest known writings regarding the game dates back to the 12th century \u2014 Chinese writers of the Yuan Dynasty described it as a gambling game sold by peddlers. They referred to the game as \u201cpupai.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game involves matching the game pieces (tiles or \u201cbones\u201d) \u2014each domino has a number of spots, or none at all, at each end of the tile that must be matched with another of the same number of spots. Playing dominoes with our grandkids is a good way to teach and reinforce basic math skills like counting, addition and multiplication. It also helps develop critical thinking, strategic planning and pattern recognition. I\u2019m not sure how much of that me or<\/em> the grandkids really learn, but we do have fun \u2014 and \u2014 it is educational. Actually, it\u2019s a lot like life \u2014 you gotta play the \u201cbones\u201d you\u2019ve drawn. It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019ve got seven doubles in your hand\u2026.
\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"