This store requires javascript to be enabled for some features to work correctly.

Types of Domino Sets

There are lots of different types of sets of dominoes although the most popular in the UK are double 6 dominoes.

Double 6 Dominoes

Double six dominoes comprise 28 tiles starting from double blank and featuring each combination of blank, and the numbers 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 through to double 6

Chinese Dominoes

Dominoes were originally Chinese. Chinese domino sets didn't feature the blank. They started with 21 tiles featuring all combinations of the numbers 1 to 6 and then had 11 duplicated tiles. Chinese dominoes were black with red and white dots and were also split into two "suits": originally called "Chinese" and "barbarian" and subsequently changed to "military" and "civilian"

Larger Domino Sets

There are larger dominoes sets available to allow more people to play at a time. The most common of these is double 9 dominoes, which feature 55 dominoes, one with each combination of blank, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9
There are also larger sets again of double twelve, double fifteen, double eighteen and even double twenty one dominoes which have 253 tiles.