The game starts off very easy. I think I won my first 80-90 games in a row. Once you reach platinum through master levels, the game is fun. At times you can sense from the first round when the AI is going to win the game no matter what you do, which is fine because it keeps it challenging. When you get to grand master, everything changes. I guess they are trying to make it tough, but it ends up just being ridiculous. The AI always has the perfect domino to score points and/or block you. I have played a lot of dominoes over the years, the only way it could possibly make a lot of the moves is because it’s playing with stacked hands based off the dominoes in your hand, not based off of percentages, and math. Example… holding a double 6 for multiple turns and then dropping it for big points once you play a particular domino. It’s like playing dominos against someone that’s looking over your shoulder the entire game. I would rate it higher if there was an option to drop back down levels or even reset and level up again.

The concept of the game is good and not bad for being their first attempt at a classic game. There are a few mistakes with the gameplay and rules. If you ever played fives dominoes, you’ll recognize what I mean below. 1) when a player scores against the opponent, the score is always in a sequence of five, hence the name “fives”. The score would never have any other score except in that sequence - 5,10,15,20,25,etc.. This game awards the winner by adding the sum and awards that number. Very incorrect. 2) after a round is won, the remaining dominoes from the opponent get tallied and are awarded to the winner. This is done by rounding, either up or down depending on the total number of pips. This version doesn’t do that, it gives the total number without rounding. 3) when a round is won, the winner starts the next round, never the loser. In this game, for some odd reason, the loser of the round starts playing first. This is very incorrect as a reward for winning the round is playing first. I’m sure there might be some other quirks with the game but I have yet to experience. I’m curious to see what happens when a round is locked. The points awarding and next round player start will be definite things I want to experience. Maybe the developers got that right. However, I’ll update this post once I experience a locked round and the results of the game. I haven’t noticed anything else but these three things are definite fixes that the developer should consider updating. These repairs will keep the integrity of the game and allow players to enjoy a true dominoes experience.

If you choose to play Draw, the AI opponents ALWAYS win, no matter what. You could have the best possible game for every round, and be super close to winning, and the AI will suddenly pull an amazing win out of nowhere. If you choose to play All Fives, the AI opponents ALWAYS lose, no matter what. The AI could have the best possible game every round, and be super close to winning, and suddenly the game will give you an amazing win out of nowhere.I ALWAYS make sure to make the BEST possible play EVERY turn, and EVERY TIME, I can tell you who is going to win, all because of which game I chose to play. It gets SUPER boring winning every game, and it gets SUPER frustrating losing every game, no matter how carefully and strategically you play.If they would fix this, this app would be an easy 5 stars, but right now, I’m only giving it 2 stars, and it only gets that second star because I do enjoy unwinding with it every now and then, for a short time, before it’s too boring or too frustrating.

I have played this game every day for almost a year and enjoy it as a morning ritual. But the latest update removed a minor but important (to me) feature and has slowed down gameplay. I used to be able to tap the screen after each round to quickly get past all the “awarding of points” to move to the next round. This was a useful feature to increase the speed of gameplay. But in the latest update this “tap to skip” feature was removed and now I suffer through the display of points each round. Yes, it’s a small amount of time, but it happened with every round which adds up considerably. It’s dramatically slowed the overall playability. Why was this done? At a minimum, give me a toggle that can allow me to turn on this cool “tap to skip” feature?