Matador (domino game)

The dominoes used as "matadors". Note that each tile, except the 0-0, has seven pips.
The game of Matador in progress. Note the "matadors": 4-3 is placed beside 6-6, 5-2 against 0-4, and 0-0 against 2-6. Also notice the doubles placed parallel rather than perpendicular to the domino line.

Matador (Spanish, "killer" or "bullfighter") or Matadore, sometimes called Russian Dominoes, is a domino game for two to four players using a double six set of dominoes.[1][2] It is one of the blocking family of domino games in which the object of the game is to be the first to go out, while blocking one's opponents from doing so. Its distinguishing feature is the unusual rule of playing tiles so as to combine pips instead of matching numbers.

  1. ^ Matador at pagat.com. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  2. ^ Brandreth 1981, pp. 185–186.