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1 day ago·How to play·18:27·29·Watch on YouTube

How to Play All Fives: Plus Muggins, All Threes, Fives and Threes, and Five Up

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Watch “How to Play All Fives: Plus Muggins, All Threes, Fives and Threes, and Five Up,” a how-to-play guide for Five-up on BoardGameVideo.

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Learn to play All Fives, an action packed point scoring domino game best for two players. In this video, I teach you how to play All Fives, basic strategies for winning, and the most popular rule variations including Muggins, All Threes, Fives and Threes, and Five Up. 0:00 How to Play All Fives 0:23 Setup All Fives 1:39 How to Score 3:15 The Spinner 6:00 Drawing from the Boneyard 6:35 Ending the Round 8:18 Winning the Game 9:16 Strategies For Winning 13:44 How to Play Muggins 15:32 How to Play All Threes 16:06 How to Play Fives and Threes 16:46 How to Play Five Up NOTES ON SCORING Players often used Cribbage boards to keep score for these games, and so points were issued differently. When earning points for sums in All Fives, the sum would be divided by 5. A sum of 5 earns 1 point, 10 earns 2 points, and so on. When determining the score at the end of the round, take the pip total and round it to the nearest five, then divide by five. For example, a score of 27 is rounded to 25 then divided by 5. The player. The same can be done for All Threes. 3 = 1 point, 6 = 2 points, 9 = 3 points and so on. Divide the final score for the round by three to determine points. Again, the same can be done for Fives and Three. When a score is both a multiple of five and three, you divide the total then add. So, 15 points would be 3 points for the multiple of 5, and 5 points for the multiple of 3. This gives the player 8 points. Unless you are using a cribbage board to keep score, this method is unnecessary. PLAYING WITH MORE THAN TWO PLAYERS If playing any of these games with 3 or 4 players, simply have each player draw 7 tiles and follow all of the same rules. In a four player game, there will be no boneyard. These games can be enjoyed 2v2 as well. Determine which player from each partnership will keep track of their team's points. The player with the lowest pip total wins the blocked round for their team. Want to learn how to play more domino games? Subscribe for new games every week.

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Five-up

Five-up

1959·Dominic C. Armanino

2 - 4 players
30 min

About Five-up, from BoardGameGeek:

Five-up is a point Traditional Games: Dominoes game in the "Fives Family" of Traditional Games: Dominoes games played with a standard Western Dominoes set of 28 tiles. This variation adds the ends of the dominoes to make a multiple of five for scoring. Five-up is very similar to other games such as All Fives, Muggins, and Sniff. In Five-up, each player starts out with five dominoes in their hand, and the first player can play any domino in their hand. Thereafter, each player must play a domino from their hand if they can match it to a domino end on the table. If they cannot play a domino from their hand, they must draw from the "boneyard" until they can play a domino on the tableau. If the ends of the dominoes add up to a multiple of five, the player adding the domino scores one (1) point for each multiple of five (5) (IE: if the ends added up to ten (10), the player would score two (2) points). The first player that plays their last domino from their hand, adds up the count remaining in their opponent's hand and scores the total divided by five (5) (IE: if the opponent had a count of fifteen (15) in their hand, the scorer would score three (3) points). Five-up is played to a score of 61, and is usually played with a Cribbage board to keep score. Five-up is unique in that every double domino played is a possible "spinner," and plays can be played on all four sides of a "spinner." The rules for Five-Up were standardized and popularized in the 60's by Dominic C. Armanino, who wrote at least four books on Dominoes. He was a strong advocate and PR agent for this version of the game. Life magazine called this version, A big new go for the humble domino.

Designer

Dominic C. Armanino

Artist

Syd Winchester

Categories

Abstract Strategy

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