Mexican Train Dominoes
- A double-twelve domino set
- A wooden hub piece for the center double
- A marker or engine train figure for each player
- Scorepad and pencil
The highest double domino is placed in the center hub to begin the game, and each player starts their own personal line of tiles, called a train, branching off from it.
On each turn, a player must add a matching tile either to their own train or to the shared public train in the middle, extending the chain of matching numbers.
If a player cannot make a legal play, they draw dominoes from the boneyard until they can play or choose to mark their own train open for anyone to add to.
Playing a double tile forces that player to immediately play a second tile on top of it, or else mark that double open for others to build on.
A round ends when a player plays their last domino or when no further moves are possible, and remaining tiles in each hand are scored as penalty points based on pip totals.
Multiple rounds are played using each double in turn as the new center hub, and the player with the lowest cumulative score after all rounds wins.