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Posted on the 30 November 23
Games at Table, at Revolución de Cuba
If you’ve ever been lucky enough to visit Cuba, you’ll know that board games (and especially Dominoes) are a huge part of the culture.
Cubans consider them one of the best ways to spend time together and at Revolución de Cuba we feel the same… which is why you can now find games available at all our tables.
Games and Rules
Below are all the games you can now find in our bars, and just in case you’re not familiar with them (or play different rules to everyone else), we’ve pulled together a quick guide on each one to help you get set up and make the most of your game time with us.
This popular game was created by Leslie Scott, who based it off a wood block stacking game that her family used to play in Ghana in the 1970s.
Simply put, once the tower is built (3 blocks on each level), players must remove a single block from within the tower and place it on the top level. A new level cannot be started until 3 blocks have been placed side by side.
The game ends when the tower falls over. The higher you get the more unstable your tower and the harder it is!
For those of you who think you’re a Jenga-pro, the record for the highest tower is 40 complete stories and two blocks into the 41st. Do you think you can beat that? Have a go with one of our sets in bar today.
As we mentioned above, this game is a Cuban classic so grab your mojito or your daiquiri and be prepared to be transported to the tropics with this simple yet effective game.
The ideal way to play this game is with 2 players.
Ensure all pieces are face down and shuffled. Once this is done, each player can pick up 6 dominoes – you can look at your own pieces but not anybody else’s. This is very important.
Players than each pick one of the leftover tiles – whoever picks the highest domino starts the game. This player must then put 1 of their 6 domino pieces on the table, and the next player needs to match a domino’s dots (either end is fine).
Can’t do that? You need to skip your go.
Once you’ve played all of your tiles, you need to announce “Domino!”… and this means your team wins this round!
If there is no winner i.e. none of your tiles match the ones on the table – players must count up their tiles and the team with the lowest points wins.
BUT WAIT… There’s more, the losing team must count the value of the remaining tiles and this score is added to the winning teams score.
The idea is that the first team to reach 100 points wins the entire game. If you’re feeling extra fancy, you can change the score to 150!
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