CLASSIC GAMES
This is the best-supported game on the list: every one of the twenty-eight tiles in a double-six set is a real 3D model with its pips on it, and they stack, clatter and fall over like the real thing.
Turn all twenty-eight tiles face down and shuffle them — the boneyard. With two players draw seven tiles each; with three or four, draw five each. Keep them where the others cannot see them.
Whoever holds the highest double leads with it. If nobody does, the highest tile leads.
Take turns adding one tile to either open end of the line, matching the number on the end you are joining. Doubles are traditionally laid crossways, and in most versions the line can then branch in four directions from the first double.
In Block dominoes, a player who cannot go simply passes. In Draw dominoes they take tiles from the boneyard until they can play, or until it is empty.
The round ends when someone plays their last tile, or when everyone is blocked. That player scores the total pips left in everyone else's hands; if the game is blocked, the player with the fewest pips scores the difference. Play rounds until somebody reaches a target — 100 or 250 are both common.
Mexican Train, Chicken Foot and Muggins all work from the same tiles if your group prefers one of those.
DiceyTable gives you the physical game — the board, the pieces and real 3D physics — not a rules engine. Nobody's move is validated and no illegal move is blocked, so house rules and variants cost you nothing. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, it is free, and you share a link to bring people in.
Setup is manual: you place the board and pieces from the in-table object library, the same way you would unpack a box. Every player needs a free account — there is nothing to download on any device.
Start a table, invite your group with a link, and place the pieces from the object library. Free, in the browser, with nothing to install.