Domino (sometimes also spelled dominoes or double-sided tile) is a rectangular block made of material such as wood or ivory that features dots or pips on one side, with blank or identically-patterned areas on the opposite. Used for various games to form lines or forms with an aim of having them collapse into each other, dominos are designed for creating lines and angles quickly with minimal resistance from falling dominos.
A domino effect is also used to describe events with larger-scale repercussions; this term applies both socially and politically as well as business situations where setbacks can obliterate any previous successes; one such example being Dominos Pizza chain from US.
Lily Hevesh started collecting dominoes when she was 9 and began collecting long lines of tiles called dominoes to play this classic board game of stacking them end to end in long rows, tipping one over causing another one to tip as a domino falls off its perch and so on. Players can create intricate patterns by stacking dominoes shaped like hearts, hearts with wings or stars; eventually these intricate designs may include even lines forming hearts themselves or star-shaped dominoes!
Hevesh became so obsessed with dominoes that she became a professional domino artist. Now creating domino setups for movies, TV shows and events such as Katy Perry’s album launch party on her YouTube channel Hevesh5, she boasts over 2 million subscribers to it!
She employs an adaptation of the engineering-design process when planning her domino installations. First she considers its theme or purpose, then brainstorms images or words related to that topic before testing her design by setting out several dominoes to see that everything works as intended.
Hevesh may not be an academic scientist, but she has still learned some key principles of physics that have helped her in her work. For instance, she studied how domino energy impacts its surroundings and can be harnessed to move large objects; particularly she investigated how force of gravity and speed of dominoes influence their fall.
Layout games of dominoes are by far the most popular form of domino play. This variant uses a domino set where each piece’s pips correspond with one or more suits of numbers from one through six; additionally each domino features two suits – its number pips as well as blanks/zeroes – on either side – with 28 tiles being the standard set; larger sets do exist.
Traditional 32-piece Chinese domino sets differ from their western counterparts in several ways, including duplications of some throws and division of the pips into two suits, making the sets longer than western sets. Furthermore, other differences include more varied domino shapes as well as Arabic numerals in some large domino sets for better readability; larger sets may even contain a “domino boneyard”, where any unplayed dominoes are stored until players can take their turns allowing more players to join the game!
