Seven-Toed Pete Dominoes Game Rules

• Seven-Toed Pete is a member of fives family of domino games in which players try to match all scoring ends of the layout on their turn so that its total is a multiple of five which is scored immediately by the player. In addition winner of each round scores bonus points at the end of each round.
• The game is played by four players and each player gets 7 tiles at the beginning of each round. There is no boneyard.
• First turn or lead is decided by a draw of lot (each player draws one tile and highest tile starts the round). Lead is passed to next player in subsequent rounds.
• Turn can be started with only a double or a scoring tile and then subsequent tiles can be played at the open ends of the layout. If lead player does not have such a tile, lead is passed to next player.
• In Seven-Toed Pete only the first double is a spinner which means tiles can be placed on all four edges of the spinner double.
• If player can not play a tile, then he/she simply passes turn to the next player.
• After a player plays a tile, all open ends of the layout are totaled and if the total is a multiple of five (5, 10 etc.), then player immediately scores that total divided by 5.
• Doubles at the end of an arm in the layout are worth its pips count. Once two tiles are placed on a double, its pip count is not considered in the total (even when the spinner has one or two edges available to place tiles).
• The open ends of the arms on all four edges of the spinner double are counted in the score.
• Whenever a player scores in his/her turn, or simply plays a double, he/she takes another turn. Players can play as many tiles as possible in each turn as long as each play is either a scoring play, or a double.
• The round ends if a player has played all of his/her tiles. Round can also end if the game is blocked which means no tile can be played by any of the players.
• If a player plays his/her last tile which is a double or, a scoring play then player is "washed up" which allows other players to continue playing until a player finishes his/her turn with a non-scoring play as well as a non-double.
• First player playing all his/her tiles wins the round (including "washed up" games). If the game is blocked then player with the lowest pips count in his/her hand wins. If more than one player score lowest, then no point is awarded to any player in a blocked game.
• After the round ends, pips on all remaining tiles of all players are counted and rounded up or down to nearest multiple of five (minus remaining pips in winner's hand) and then divided by five which is scored by the winner of that round.
• The game is played for multiple rounds and player with highest score above 100 wins.
• West-Coast variant of this game is Horse Race (in which all doubles are spinners).
• Reference Rules: pagat.com