Domino is a mutant shapeshifter who can influence the laws of probability in her favor. She is a skilled athlete, martial artist, and weapons expert. She disabled a prototype combat droid during a mission and became romantically involved with fellow mutant soldier Cable.
A domino has a line down its center dividing it into two square ends, each of which has a number of spots or pips. A domino is usually twice as long as it is wide.
Rules
Domino has an uncanny ability to trigger improbable events that benefit her and harm her opponents. This is caused by the psionic aura surrounding her that alters probabilities. The effect can range from making a missile miss its target to shutting down an overloading machine. Domino also subconsciously manipulates the odds to her favor, and she is often a de facto leader of hero groups like X-Men and Six Pack.
To begin a game, all players put their domino pieces face down and shuffle them. After the shuffle, each player picks 7 pieces and arranges them without letting others see them. Then, the first person to play places his piece in the middle of the table. This is called the set or the downer.
The rest of the players make their turns in a clockwise direction. When a hand is completed, the winning player gets his points from the opponent’s tiles in the boneyard and his own score from the remaining dominoes. The loser gets zero points for the round.
Variations
There are many different games that can be played with dominoes. Most are blocking or scoring games, but there are also trick and trump-like games that were once popular in certain areas to circumvent religious prohibitions on playing cards.
Dominoes are twice as long as they are wide and have a line in the middle that divides them into two squares. The squares have a pattern of dots or pips that identify the domino’s value.
The first player places a domino, then each player takes turns adding another domino to the line, matching the value of one half to the other. When the open ends of a domino chain add up to a multiple of 5, players score that number. The winner is the player with the lowest total points at the end of an agreed number of rounds. If a player cannot play any of their tiles, they draw from the boneyard until they find one they can lay.
Materials
Domino is a mutant who uses her powers to thwart the efforts of anti-mutant extremists. Able to manipulate the laws of probability, she is also a skilled weapons expert and martial artist. Domino often works as a mercenary for hero groups such as X-Force.
A domino is a small, rectangular block with a smooth surface and a series of numbered spots, known as pips. The pips are usually either molded or drilled into the domino pieces. Modern mass-produced dominoes are made of a variety of materials, including plastics, metals, stone and wood.
Traditional European-style dominoes are made from bone, silver lip ocean pearl oyster shell (mother of pearl), ivory and a dark hardwood such as ebony, with contrasting black or white pips. Some sets have the upper thickness of the domino in MOP, ivory or bone and the lower layer in ebony. Other, more decorative domino sets are made from other natural materials such as marble, granite and soapstone; frosted glass or crystal.
Scoring
A domino is a two-sided tile with numbers (called spots or pips) on each end. The number of pips determines its value, sometimes referred to as its rank or weight. A higher ranked tile is generally “heavier” than a lower ranked one.
Each player’s score is calculated by adding up the dots on all their opponent’s tiles, except for those in the centre of the table where they are unable to be counted (this is called “pencil whooping”). If the total sum of an opponents spots is equal to or greater than a set point, the players scores are added together.
Domino frequently uses her psionic aura to alter probabilities, giving her good luck while making her opponents suffer bad luck. She also subconsciously generates a psionic field that allows her to manipulate the actions of others, such as having an enemy’s equipment malfunction or shutting down an overloading machine. She helped Cable restructure X-Force following the events of M-Day and investigated a murder committed by feral Six Pack member Grizzly, who enlisted his henchman Copycat to impersonate Domino.
