Develop counting and matching skills with these numbered Bible dominoes.
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Number of players: 2-4
Age: 3 years and up
Setting up: Shuffle the dominoes and place them face down in the middle of all the players. If there are 2 players, each player picks up 7 dominoes. If there are 3 or 4 players, each player picks up 5 dominoes. The players can look at their own hand of dominoes. Put the rest of the dominoes in a pile, face down, within easy reach of all players.
Object: To be the first player to use up all their dominoes.
Play:
- The youngest player starts the game by placing one of their dominoes face up in the middle of the players.
- Play moves to the person on their left. This players must match a color or number on one end of the domino laid down by the first player with one of their own dominoes. They must place their domino so the matching ends touch. Play then moves to the next person. Dominoes can be matched with either end of the line of dominoes in play, and can be laid at right angles if necessary.
- If a player can't match any of their dominoes, they must take and keep an extra domino from the pile. Play passes to the next player.
- If a player can't match any of their dominoes, and there are none left in the pile, play passes to the next player.
- Play continues until one player uses up all their dominoes, or until nobody can match any of their dominoes.
Winner: The first person to play all their dominoes or, if no more moves are possible, the player who has the fewest dominoes.