Dominoes

The First All Fives Domino Game for Your Pocket PC

Electrum Dominoes is a variation of All Fives, using a 28-piece set consisting of one bone with each possible combination of pips from 0-0 through 6-6. All Fives is also known as Five-Up or Sniff.

If you like Draw or Block domino games, you can play them too. Electrum Dominoes has ten different settings that you can use to change the rules to suit your preferences.

The traditional appearance of an All Fives game is something like this.

Your hand appears in the foreground, your opponent’s at the back, the boneyard to one side, and the played bones in the middle. Handheld devices are not suitable for this type of display; their screens are much too small. Even if the boneyard and opponent's hand were not shown, the possible expansion of the player's hand and the meanderings of the played bones would require so much scrolling as to render the game unplayable. So we came up with a better way.

We collapsed the lines of played bones so that only the ends are seen next to the spinner. We moved the rest of the bones to a panel that also contains the bones in your hand. The played bones are added from right to left, bottom to top; the bones in your hand are added from left to right, top to bottom. There's just enough room so they never overlap, and there's almost always a gap between them. And you have just about the same information available to you as you would if you were playing against a human.

Features:

Five levels of difficulty

Control over which player leads a hand

Seven choices of points needed to win a game

Option to draw either five or seven bones to begin a hand

Play with or without a spinner

Play with or without a boneyard after the initial draw

Play with or without score for board count divisibility by five

Option to round awarded points to the nearest five

Option to allow or disallow drawing when not required

Option to display the board count

Option to enable your opponent to play automatically

Option to highlight bones as your opponent plays them

Option to remove two bones from the boneyard at the beginning of each hand

Option to limit the number of doublets drawn

Option to specify how blocked hands are scored

Option to ignore scores of less than ten points during a hand

'Undo' function to undo a play or a draw

'Preserve' and 'Restore' functions to enable replaying from a point of your choosing *

Functions to display your opponent's hand or the boneyard *

Games won by each player are counted and can be cleared; they can be displayed as either raw numbers or percentages

* These functions are available only in the registered version.

Electrum Dominoes can be installed on any ARM-powered or ARM-compliant Pocket PC. On non-color devices, the display appears in glorious monochrome.

This game is shareware. If you like it (or use it for more than thirty days), visit PocketGear to obtain the registered version, which is nag-free and preserves the game status and your preferences between games and when you use other applications.

The downloadable archive (ElectrumDominoesPPCTrial.zip) is about 95KB in size. It contains the executable (about 39KB) and documentation. Please read the accompanying information in license.txt and install Dominoes.ARM.CAB only if you understand and accept the terms and conditions therein.

For further information, contact support@electrumsoftware.com.au

Download Electrum Dominoes 1.9 Trial Version

Download Just the Documentation (HTML; about 75KB)


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