The Rules Of Dominoes

Robin Linus has done some truly heroic work showing that verbatim Poker can be done in Bitcoin script as it exists today with no extensions. This is still very much a prototype. Much further along than a prototype Nokitlan is supporting games on Chia, including dominoes (this is built on the Chia gaming work of been doing as the fundamental building block and interoperability substrate). Which got me thinking: What are the best dominoes rules to play on Chia? There are many different dominoes variants, with not that much standardization. The tournaments are a four player version which has a very bridge-like feel and is obviously a complete nonstarter for remote play because it’s just begging for cheating via collusion. For two players there isn’t even a completely standardized set of rules, so that’s my excuse for pondering variants, which I’ll do now.The double-six set of dominoes is a pretty good start for the medium, because if two players alternate discards that’s 28 turns total…