Deluxe Tri Ominoes

Not many people will have heard of Tri-Ominos but we’ve had the game since as long as I can remember. Our set was bought in the early eighties when I was a really young so I would have had no interest in this and I don’t recall playing it then. My parents tell me they used to play it, which explains this. It does look like a dull game to play and for young children it would be, especially now with all the computer games they have. *** So what is Tri-Ominos? *** Tri-Ominos works on the same principle as a game of dominoes but the tiles are triangular and instead of dots you have a number at each point ranging from 0 through to 5. You have to place ...

-0- TriOminos by Goliath - the three sided domino game -0- Just how many of us know of the traditional game of dominoes ? Now how many of you have played it ? No doubt 90+% of us will say yes . Now ask yourselves the the same questions replacing the word dominoes with the word triominos , and I bet the answer is less than 5% . Yet strangly the game of Trionimos , as we know it today has been around since 1968 and has changed very little . Itself however is based on an American card game entitled Contack , that first appeared in 1938 and was released by Parker Bros. - bet most of you didn't know that ! -0- What is a triomino ? ...

Dominoes just got more complicated. You have to match triangular tiles to play this game. The deluxe set comes with a tray to put the pieces on which is useful. You also get instructions and score sheets in the box. Scoring is done by adding up the numbers on the triominoes laid down and you also get extra point for making certain shapes. Itsounds quite simple but its amazing how many times you look at your triangular pieces and think you can play and when you lay it down it just won't match no matter how you try it. There is also a solo game where you match dominoes to make certain shapes. This is much more interesting than ...