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Domino and Tile Video Games: Scrabble

This document discusses different types of tile-based games, pencil and paper games, and guessing games. It describes how domino games involve playing tiles with matching dots onto a board and common domino games. It also mentions tile-based board games like Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne that use tiles to build the game board. Pencil and paper games are discussed like Pictionary, Scrabble, and Sudoku that require minimal equipment. Finally, it defines guessing games as having one player know a piece of information the others must guess through charades or limited communication like Catch Phrase and Taboo.

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Domino and Tile Video Games: Scrabble

This document discusses different types of tile-based games, pencil and paper games, and guessing games. It describes how domino games involve playing tiles with matching dots onto a board and common domino games. It also mentions tile-based board games like Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne that use tiles to build the game board. Pencil and paper games are discussed like Pictionary, Scrabble, and Sudoku that require minimal equipment. Finally, it defines guessing games as having one player know a piece of information the others must guess through charades or limited communication like Catch Phrase and Taboo.

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Domino and tile video games

Domino games are similar in many respects to card games, but the generic device is instead a set of
tiles called dominoes, which traditionally each have two ends, each with a given number of dots, or
"pips", and each combination of two possible end values as it appears on a tile is unique in the set.
The games played with dominoes largely center around playing a domino from the player's "hand"
onto the matching end of another domino, and the overall object could be to always be able to make
a play, to make all open endpoints sum to a given number or multiple, or simply to play all dominoes
from one's hand onto the board. Sets vary in the number of possible dots on one end, and thus of
the number of combinations and pieces; the most common set historically is double-six, though in
more recent times "extended" sets such as double-nine have been introduced to increase the
number of dominoes available, which allows larger hands and more players in a
game. Muggins, Mexican Train, and Chicken Foot are very popular domino games. Texas 42 is a
domino game more similar in its play to a "trick-taking" card game.
Variations of traditional dominoes abound: Triominoes are similar in theory but are triangular and
thus have three values per tile. Similarly, a game known as Quad-Ominos uses four-sided tiles.
Some other games use tiles in place of cards; Rummikub is a variant of the Rummy card game
family that uses tiles numbered in ascending rank among four colors, very similar in makeup to a 2-
deck "pack" of Anglo-American playing cards. Mahjong is another game very similar to Rummy that
uses a set of tiles with card-like values and art.
Lastly, some games use graphical tiles to form a board layout, on which other elements of the game
are played. Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne are examples. In each, the "board" is made up of a
series of tiles; in Settlers of Catan the starting layout is random but static, while in Carcassonne the
game is played by "building" the board tile-by-tile. Hive, an abstract strategy game using tiles as
moving pieces, has mechanical and strategic elements similar to chess, although it has no board;
the pieces themselves both form the layout and can move within it.
Pencil and paper games
Pencil and paper games require little or no specialized equipment other than writing materials,
though some such games have been commercialized as board games (Scrabble, for instance, is
based on the idea of a crossword puzzle, and tic-tac-toe sets with a boxed grid and pieces are
available commercially). These games vary widely, from games centering on a design being drawn
such as Pictionary and "connect-the-dots" games like sprouts, to letter and word games such
as Boggle and Scattergories, to solitaire and logic puzzle games such as Sudoku and crossword
puzzles.
Guessing games
Main article: Guessing game
A guessing game has as its core a piece of information that one player knows, and the object is to
coerce others into guessing that piece of information without actually divulging it in text or spoken
word. Charades is probably the most well-known game of this type, and has spawned numerous
commercial variants that involve differing rules on the type of communication to be given, such
as Catch Phrase, Taboo, Pictionary, and similar. The genre also includes many game shows such
as Win, Lose or Draw, Password and $25,000 Pyramid.

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