Six of the seven remaining tiles contain a blank (representing zero) combined with one of the numbers, and the seventh has two blanks (or double zero). In the Western set, 21 of the tiles are the same as those in the Chinese set and represent all the possible throws of two dice. In contrast, the standard Western domino set, the double-six set, has only 28 tiles and does not contain duplicates. In addition, Chinese sets contain 11 duplicates, making 32 dominoes in a complete set. Individual dominoes (also known variously as tiles, bones or stones) represent the possible throws of a pair of dice-6:6, 6:5…2:1, 1:1-giving a total of 21. The Chinese domino set differs markedly from the set used for Western games. Since then, domino games have become known throughout most of the world. It quickly spread throughout Europe and towards the end of the 11th century it was brought to England, probably by French prisoners of war. Where the Chinese have played domino games for several centuries, the European game seems to have originated in Italy as recently as the beginning of the 18th century. Dominoes are direct descendants of the ordinary six sided dice, and although a very similar game was played in ancient Egypt, the domino appears to have been invented independently in Europe and China. Domino games call for calculation and strategy and some of them are extremely complex.
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