Puerto Rico · Boneyard County
¡Wepa! Boneyard City plays it the island's way.
Dominó de parejas, a lo puertorriqueño: Doscientos y Quinientos, capicú, chuchazo y tranque. Bienvenidos a la casa de Felipe.
Felipe's House is open in Boneyard County, right beside Peggy's Trailer and Uncle Larry's House. Partners, seven bones each, nobody draws, and every bone on the table counts.
Felipe's table
A classic square Puerto Rican domino table: a wood rim, cup holders in the corners, deep blue felt and the flag on the rim. You sit across from your partner, and play runs counter-clockwise.
It's a calm table. Bones are laid, never slammed, and nobody talks over the game.
How the island plays · Cómo se juega
- La mesa. Four players, two teams, partners across. All 28 bones are dealt, seven each. No boneyard, nobody draws.
- La salida. The 6-6 opens the first hand. After that, whoever won the last hand leads any bone.
- Juega o pasa. If something fits, you play it. If nothing fits, you say "paso" and knock the table.
- El dominó. Go out and your team counts every bone left on the table, all four hands, your partner's too.
- El tranque. Nobody can play? The team holding fewer pips takes the whole table.
- Doscientos. First team to 200. Make the next player pass: 20 for the first time in the hand, 10 after. Counted in tens, like the chips.
- Quinientos. First team to 500. Capicú (out on a bone that fits either end) +100, chuchazo (out on the 0-0) +100, and 100, 75, 50, 25 for the first four hands.
The people at Felipe's
Don Felipe from Bayamón hosts. Doña Carmen from Loíza, Maritza from Carolina, Tito from Ponce, Wichy from Caguas, Jazmín from Santurce, Ray from Arecibo and Marcus (Philadelphia, summers in Loíza) take their seats. Every shade of the island at one table.
Learn it in class · Aprende en la clase
New to the Puerto Rican game? Take the class: Profesora Nilda from Río Piedras teaches it at Boneyard University, and Trustee Papo from Guayama teaches it in the BCJ Education Room. Eight lessons, a quiz for your certificate, and a practice table with your teacher as your partner.
Felipe's House is in the private test version of the app now and opens to everyone at launch. Bragging rights only at Felipe's for now. The app launches first on iPhone and iPad.
