📖Glossary of Terms

  1. Blocking: It is known as locked game, it refers to the action of a player placing the checker in the current round knowing that there are no more checkers available in any hand to continue the game. Therefore, the game is blocked.

  2. Graveyard: Refers to the pile of checkers that are available when there are only three or two players, these checkers are grouped at one end of the table and will be available to players as they need a checker to play.

  3. Tile: The name given to each domino piece.

  4. Game: Moment in which the players play, it can be composed of 1 or several rounds, until the winner of the game is determined.

  5. Play: Action of throwing or placing a domino.

  6. Hand: Number of checkers (7) that each player has to make moves.

  7. Pints: Name given to the pips on each domino.

  8. Round: Moment in which all the players throw dominoes and make moves again until they run out of dominoes. A game can be composed of 1 or several rounds as required by the game mode.

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