Giant Dominoes Garden Game

Fun for all ages, these wooden Giant Dominoes can be played indoors or outside and come packed in a wooden box with handle.

Each domino measure 13.5cms x 7cms x 2cms thick.

Origin Of Giant Dominoes

Domino pieces were historically carved from ivory or animal bone with small, round pips of inset ebony (certainly not wooden giant dominoes). The word Dominoes comes from the pieces' resemblance to Venetian Carnival masks known as domini, which were white with black spots. These masks were named as such, because of their resemblance to French priests' winter hoods, which were black on the outside and white on the inside. The name dominoes derives from the Latin dominus, meaning "lord" or "master."

The oldest domino sets have been dated from around 1120. Modern dominoes, as most of the Western world knows them, however, appear to be a Chinese invention. They were apparently derived from cubic dice, which had been introduced into China from India some time in the distant past. Each domino originally represented one of the 21 results of throwing two dice. One half of each domino is set with the pips from one die and the other half contains the pips from the second die. Chinese sets also introduce duplicates of some throws and divide the dominoes into two classes: military and civil. Chinese dominoes are also longer than typical European dominoes. Over time Chinese dominoes also evolved into the tile set used to play Mah Jong, a game which swept across the United States in the early to mid 1920s and has enjoyed moderate popularity, especially in its "solitaire" form, since that time. Then finally in recent years giant dominoes has become ever more popular in the UK as one of the leading garden games for children and adults alike.

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