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• Introduction
• Layout Games played with Dominoes
• Layout Games played with Cards

Introduction

In these games there is a layout, with rules as to what can be played next. If you have no play that fits you must pick up. Previously I called this the "domino group" because many of the games use dominoes, and even the most popular card game of this group (Fan Tan) is sometimes known as Card Dominoes. I have decided to start calling it the layout group to avoid confusion between games of this group (which may or may not use dominoes) and games played with dominoes (which may or may not belong to the layout group). There is now a separate page about games played with dominoes, and a collection of pages by Joe Celko about games with Western Dominoes and Chinese Dominoes.

Layout games played with dominoes

In layout games played with dominoes, usually it is necessary for one end of the played domino to match a free end of a domino on the layout.

• The Draw Game
• The Block Game
• Five up, or Muggins
• Fives and Threes
• Matador
• Bergen
• Flower and Scorpion
• Train
• Chicken Foot
• Caribbean Dominoes
• Gaple
• Nos

For other types of games played with dominoes, see Joe Celko's pages about games with Western Dominoes and Chinese Dominoes and the domino page of this site.

Layout games played with cards

The best known game of this type is Card Dominoes, also known as Parliament, Sevens or Fan Tan. The layout consists of the four suits built in sequence from the 7's in the centre to the ace and king at the extremes. A version of this also occurs as an option in some compendium games such as Lórum and Barbu.

• Parliament / Sevens / Fan Tan / Card Dominoes
• Table Tob Cribbage is rather different in that you can always play, and you score according to the combinations on the layout.
• Kings in the Corners has some characteristics of a patience game.