Premier Giant Dominoes
Our premier dominoes are beautifully made wooden dominoes with colourful spots. They come in a wooden box with a rope handle at a very reasonable price. They are suitable for use indoors or outdoors and young children love them!
These are the largest dominoes around at 7 inches long. There are lots of cheaper dominoes on the market that are smaller and less fun - do check the size before buying elsewhere.
These dominoes are too thin to easily balance on their sides but they can just be put face down in front of you in order to conceal your hand (and if they're for small children, they won't care about this, anyway!)
There are 28 pieces. Each piece is 18 x 9 x 1 cm (7 x 3.5 x 0.4 inches) The box is 400 x 100 x 220mm (16 x 4 x 9 inches).
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Tile games of some form have been found from around 1120 AD in China. Chinese dominoes are longer than Western ones and are divided into two types and were originally carved from bone or ivory with the indented pips made of ebony. Each Chinese tile represents one of the twenty-one different permutations of throwing two cubic dice although there are a total of thirty-two tiles since certain dominoes are duplicated. A set of Chinese tiles is divided into two categories - Military and Civilian. The Civilian tiles are the set of tiles that have duplicates while the Military tiles are those that are unique.
The game appeared first in Europe in 18th Century Italy, possibly in the courts of Venice and Naples. Although domino tiles are clearly of Chinese inheritance, there is debate over whether the game played by Europeans was brought by the Chinese to Europe in the fourteenth century or, in fact, was invented independently. European dominoes are shorter than Chinese ones and there is a single tile for each permutation of the throw of two dice or a blank making a total of twenty-eight tiles. This is the standard or "double-six" set and, as in China, various games can be played with it. Double-twelve sets (91 tiles) are popular in America and Double-nine sets (55 tiles) also provide some extra complexity to this genre of game.
The game arrived in Britain in the late 18th Century from France (possibly via French prisoners of war) and quickly seems to have become popular in inns and taverns at the time. The word "Domino" is French for a black and white hood worn by Christian priests in winter and that is probably from where the name of the game derives.
You can learn more about Dominoes from The Online Guide to Traditional Games.