Austrian Dominoes Game Rules

• Austrian Dominoes is played using double-8 dominoes set by 2 or 3 players. Double-8 dominoes set contains 45 tiles. In Austrian dominoes all doubles are removed leaving 36 tiles to play with. Players try to match two ends of the double-line layout on their turn.
• Each player in two-players game is dealt 9 tiles each. In 3-players game each player is dealt 7 tiles at the begining. Remaining tiles are set aside in the boneyard.
• The first player is decided by a draw of lot. The lead is passed clockwise in subsequent rounds.
• Lead player can start with any tile and then players take turn to play a matching tile on their turn onto sides of the matching end which looks like a row of bricks.
• If a player can not play, then he/she must draw from the boneyard until either he/she gets a playable tile or the boneyard is empty.
• If player draws a tile which can be immediately played, then it must be played.
• If player can not play a tile and can not draw from the boneyard either, he/she simply passes the turn to the next player.
• The round ends if a player has played all of his/her tiles. Round can also end if the game is blocked which means no tile can be played by any player.
• Winner of the round is the player who played all his/her tiles, or the player with the lowest score.
• Player scores the total pip count of all other players' tiles minus pip count of his/her own tiles (if the game was blocked). If two players get similar score then there is no winner for the round and no point is scored by any player.
• The game is played for multiple rounds and the first player to score 100 points wins.