Sebastopol

Sebastopol is a member of the Cyprus family and is played with a double six set.

Equipment

The game uses a double six domino set and four players.

The Deal

Each player gets seven tiles for his hand.

The Play

The player holding the [6-6] begins the hand by setting it in the center of the table. After he has played, the next player going clockwise around the table must place another tile in the sixes suit on the [6-6]. Each of the following players is so obligated until there are four tiles around the [6-6], making it a spinner from which the spinner grows.

A player not able to play a tile in the sixes suit must pass his turn and play goes to the next player.

Once all four arms of the spinner are started, each player can add a tile to the end of any of the arms in the usual manner. Other doubles are played in line.

Scoring

When one player dominoes, he receives the total of the pips on the tile in the other player's hands as his score.

If the games blocks, then the player with the lowest total is the winner. He scores the totals from the other players and then subtracts his own score from that total.

The game is played for 60 points, or more points by agreement.

Strategy

Notice that there are seven tiles in the sixes suit. This means that five of them will be in the center of the table when the opening spinner is completed. When one of the remaining tiles in the sixes suit is played, it will block that arm of the spinner to all but the other sixes tile.

The opening spinner will have almost all the other suits (zero to six) on the arms of the spinner, so you can watch the other players to see what arms they do not play on to determine what suits they do not have in their hands.