Creating Your Membership
Creating your Membership is simple, click the ‘New Users Register Now’ Button. The screen will request your custom screen name, email address and password. After creating membership Log into Lobby and Play Now.
Creating Your All Access Account
After enjoying our site and becoming familiar with our custom game play and special features we recommend that you sign up for our All Access Membership that will allow you to compete in unlimited cash tournaments and daily jackpot drawings for the length of your subscription, whether you want to try it for one (1) week, one (1) month, or one (1) year. Simply click ‘Edit your Account’ on the home page and then click the subscription tab to upgrade your membership.
Playing DominoChamp Competitions
Login to the Domino Champ Lobby by entering your email and password. Under the Competition tab, you can select Social Games, Rated Games or Prize Games.
Screen shot of the lobby. Steps One and Two.
Playing Domino Champ Competitions
Login to the Domino Champ Lobby by entering your email and password. Under the Competition tab, you can select Social Games, Rated Games or Prize Games. (During the Beta Test, only Social Games is available.)
Step One
Select your favorite domino game from our directory of games. This will take you to a list of Rooms to enter. A Room is "full" when it contains one-hundred active Tables.
Step Two
Select a Room and you will get a list of active Tables and Players in that Room. You can join an active Table if it has one or more [OPEN SEAT]s. Or, you can open your own Table by clicking the Create a New Table button.
Game Rules: Fives Up
Number of Players: 2 or 4
Domino Sets: Domino Champs offers game play with Double Six and Double Nine Domino Sets. Dominoes are also called tiles, bones or hit rocks.
Drawing: When playing with a Double Six set, Domino Champs offers the option of drawing seven (7) or nine (9) dominoes in two player games, otherwise only seven (7) dominoes can be drawn in a four player game. When playing with a Double Nine set, nine (9) dominoes are drawn in two and four player games.
Summary: The game is played by placing a tile on the end of a matching peremeter domino or matching spinner domino to score points by making the ends of the peremeter tiles add up to a multiple of five (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, etc.) after you place your tile. In addition, being the first person to play your last domino (called ‘domino’) or locking the game (meaning no one can play) can win points also.
Game Start
Each player draws or auto draws their bones and the remaining undrawn tiles move into the Boneyard to be drawn upon during the game. The player with the highest double (Spinner) starts the game by placing that double on the table. If no one has a double then the highest domino with the highest number on either end starts the game. Each player then takes turns placing matching bones on the table in a clockwise rotation. The player that places the last bone starts the next round and can play any domino in their hand first. If the round is locked up, the next round is started by the player with the highest double. However, the first double played, whether it is the initial tile or not, is known as the Spinnerand only the Spinner can be played off of on all four sides. All subsequent doubles can not.
Screen shot of the game table during play.
Game Play
After the first domino is placed on the table, players play in a clockwise rotation. The next player can place a domino at any matching peremeter tile or matching open end of spinner. If a player does not have any matching dominoes, they must draw dominoes from the boneyard until they choose one from the boneyard. If there are no dominoes in the boneyard, then the player’s turn will be skipped (passed). Double Six four player games do not have Boneyards, therefore players turns will be skipped if they do not have a matching tiles.
Scoring
The sum of the dots (pips) on the ends of perimeter dominoes is called the "Board Count" and is shown below the table. If you place a bone on the table that sets the Board Count to a multiple of five (5, 10, 15, 20, etc.), you score that many points instantly. Spinners are counted as a perimeter tile if it’s the first domino played or if only one side out of the four sides has been played on. If a spinner has dominoes placed at two or more sides then it is no longer counted in the Board Count. Games at Domino Champs play to 150 or 250 points.
Ending A Hand
The round ends when one player has won by playing all the bones in their hand. If all players can not play or draw but still have dominoes, the round is also considered over (locked up). In this case, the player with the fewest number of dots on all their remaining bones in their hand wins that round. The player who wins receives additional points equal to the total of the number of dots on the dominoes remaining in the other players' hands rounded to the nearest multiple of five. If the round is locked up and the lowest number of dots are the same in two players hands then no one receives any additional points.
Variations
Block is played the same as Fives-Up with the following exception. When playing Block if the board count equals a multiple of five it will not count as points scored. The only points that can be scored will be the total of the number of dots on the dominoes remaining in the other players' hands at the end of the round similar to Fives-Up.
No Spinner is offered in Domino Champ Block games. This additional option turns the spinner off meaning that only two sides of the spinner can be played on instead of four.
