Patent ID: 8596642

Claim:
A method of playing a domino match comprising a set of wagering rules in which players may participate in a risk, the match including a plurality of successive domino games, the domino match being played by a plurality of players upon a suitably programmed computer with a computer display that provides a game surface that is divided into respective individual playing areas each being associated with one of said players, and each said player's individual playing area including a point token holding area holding a predetermined set of point tokens at the beginning of each said game, a reward region, and a risk region; and a common play area surrounded by said individual playing areas; and with game pieces including a standard set of domino stones, each having dot markings on a face side and each having a back side, and a plurality of point tokens; the method comprising the steps of the computer turning over the set of domino stones so that the face sides thereof are concealed from the players; playing a first domino game, with each player drawing a predetermined number of said domino stones from the turned-over domino stones displayed on said computer, the players in turn placing one or more of said domino stones in said common play area to build an array of said stones wherein the players in turn place a domino stone in line with an available end of a domino stone displayed in the array and adjacent therewith such that the dot marking of the domino stone being placed matches the dot marking of the available end of the domino stone; awarding points to one of the players upon a scoring event occurring at said one player's turn in said first domino game, said scoring event occurring based on the number of dots in the dot markings of the domino stone placed by such one of the players and the number of dots in the dot marking of said available end of the domino stone; said awarding points including moving one or more of said point tokens from the point token holding area of one the individual playing area associated with another one of the players to the rewards region of the individual playing area associated with said one player; terminating said first domino game upon a predetermined condition being reached; determining a winner of the first domino game from among said plurality of players; and each of the remaining players passing one or more of said point tokens from the point token holding areas of the individual playing area of the respective other players to the rewards area of the individual playing area of said winner of the first domino game; and playing a subsequent domino game.