How to Play Dominoes in Red Dead Redemption II: A Complete Guide

By Rahul Rajput On Aug 28, 2023

Just like its predecessor, Red Dead Redemption II gives players plenty of chances to take a break from gunfights and other tasks by doing other, less stressful things. RDR players can also join standard table games like Poker, Blackjack, and Dominoes. Some of these activities include fishing, hunting, gathering food, and just exploring.

Dominoes in Red Dead Redemption II is a version of the real-life game, so people who know how to play it shouldn’t have any trouble taking over the table. But people who have never played Dominoes before shouldn’t worry because the rules are easy to understand and there are many ways to win strategically.

Where to Play Dominoes in Red Dead Redemption II?

In Red Dead Redemption II, players will need to find a Domino table in order to play Dominoes. Dominoes is sometimes played in the gang’s camp, but you can’t count on it because it happens so rarely.

Games like Five Finger Fillet are more common. Dominoes tables appear at Emerald Station, Saint-Denis, and Blackwater, so players should go to one of these places and look for the Domino sign on the map.

How to Play Dominoes in Red Dead Redemption 2?

There are a few different kinds of Dominoes in Red Dead Redemption II. They all work the same way, but their goals are different. These include Draw Dominoes, Block Dominoes, All Threes Dominoes, and All Fives Dominoes in Red Dead Redemption II.

If a player wins a Domino game, they get to keep the money they bet during the game.

How to Play Draw Dominoes and Block Dominoes?

Dominoes: Draw is the most basic version of Dominoes in Red Dead Redemption II. In this game, the goal is to be the first person to run out of domino cards. The first person to get rid of all of their tiles wins as many points as there are dots on all of the other players’ tiles. Whoever gets to 60 points first wins.

In Dominoes: Draw, each person gets seven tiles, and the rest are put in a pile called the “boneyard.” To start the game, the person with the largest double puts that tile in the middle of the table. A “double” is a domino with the same number of dots on both sides.

If no one has a pair, the player whose tile is the highest goes first. After a tile is played, each person links one of their own tiles to a matching tile on the table. For example, if someone plays a 6-6, any domino with a 6 on either side can be played on that pair, but only on the two longest sides.

From then on, the numbers on the ends of the domino chain follow the same rules. If the numbers on the ends of the chain are 3 and 4, for example, any domino with a 3 or 4 on one side can be tied to the same number on the chain. If a person doesn’t have a domino that can be played, they have to draw from the boneyard until they do.

Since the winner gets points equal to the total number of pips on the other players’ dominoes, it’s best to get rid of the dominoes with the most pips first. This limits how many points other players can get from those dominoes.

Dominoes: Block is played the same way as Dominoes: Draw, but there is no boneyard, so if a person can’t play, they can’t draw another domino. The best way to play Dominoes: Block is to keep track of which dominoes are on the table and if other players can play on certain numbers. Then, when you play, you should try to block other players.

How to Play All Threes and All Fives Dominoes?

At the end of each turn in Dominoes: All Threes, players get points by adding up the number of pips at each open end of the chain. If the edge number is a multiple of 3, this is how many points the player gets. As with Dominoes: Draw and Dominoes: Block, the round stops when a player runs out of tiles or when the round is blocked.

The first person to use all of their tiles wins the sum of their opponents’ pips for that round, rounded up or down to the nearest 3. When one player gets a total of 90 points, the winner is chosen.

As in Dominoes: Draw and Dominoes: Block, the game starts with the player who has the highest double (or the highest tile if no one has any doubles). But unlike in Draw and Block, that double tile is called a “spinner,” and dominoes can be connected to all four of its sides. This makes room for more dominoes, but it also makes the game end faster.

All Fives Dominoes is played the same way as All Threes Dominoes, except that players get points when the edge score is a multiple of 5. Also, at the end of each round, the winner gets the total number of pips their opponents had, rounded up or down to the nearest 5. The game of All Fives is won by the first player to get 100 points.