Mexican Train Dominoes Review

Overall 4.00 of 5 (by 1 user)

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AGWNGWMOM
Marietta, GA

Great family game for an evening or weekend

quality conscious, Game lover, mom of boy and girl, good at puzzles, happy to play with my kids, a believer in creative toys, looking for durability, a fan of educational toys

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Pros

Easy to play but strategy involved

Cons

Takes a long time to finish

NOV

2007

This is a great game. In a world of electronic beeps and buzzes, it is refreshing to be able to play a game that doesn't do either. It is a great game for 3 or more people, OK with 2 people. We enjoy playing as a family--my 4 year old son and I usually play as a team and then my dad and my 10 year old daughter are the 2 other individual players. It can take a long time to complete the game (13 rounds if the 12's are used), but you can always decide to call it quits after 1 or more rounds. There are sets of 12 and 15--the 15 is harder, and would be better with more people playing. The object is to make 'trains' of the dominoes you draw, but if you can't, you start new trains if you have the dominoes to do it, or hope you can build on to other trains to avoid making your train a ghost train. Who ever runs out of their tiles first wins the round and collects the points from the other players based on the dominoes they have left. My only other complaint besides the full length of the game is that there are not enough slots in the one 'train' station provided, nor enough 'trains' provided to develop open trains or mark 'ghost' trains.