Friday, May 3, 2013

Look at these sets of seven tiles -- then reorder them to make them easier to "see"



One of the skills of the advanced player is organizing tiles so that patterns can be seen.  Below are four sets of seven tiles.  Your task is to re-arrange them into an order that best prepares the player to see the "strong suits."




For convenience, I call these hands "2" and "5" and "3" and the fourth one.

How would you re-arrange these hands?



ANSWERS
In the "no" label set of seven tiles, the 6's and 4's are grouped together and the same pairing of 1's and 0's is available here.  This is a balanced hand with at least one of each number present.



What do you notice with the 5's and the 6's?  Yes, they were brought together.






The strong 3's and 4's dominate this hand.   Careful to be sure that you see that you have pairs of 1 and 2.


Several tiles needed to be rotated 180 degrees to line up.  The 2's needed to migrate closer to each other.  Wow... now you can see that you have four 5's... oh, and three 2's and a pair of 3's.

Try this exercise...  


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Exercise 2 Practice with Dominos for Beginners: What tiles are not on the table?



Fully guided instruction requires us to go step-by step.  Let's look at a game BACKWARDS.

What tiles have not yet been played?  (18 tiles are on the table, so how many are off the table?)



This exercise is helpful because you want to take inventory after every turn.

How many 1s are on the table?


How many 2s?


How many 3s?


How many 4s?


How many 5s?


How many 6s?


How many 0s?




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ANSWER



Answers

                                             not on the table:   


How many 1s are on the table?   four   not  1/4   1/6   1/0


How many 2s?  four   not  2/   2/2     2/6    


How many 3s?  five   not    3/5    3/6  


How many 4s? six   not    4/1 


How many 5s?  five  not     5/0    5/3


How many 6s?   four  not   6/1   6/2    6/3  


How many 0s?  three   not  0/0   0/1   0/2  0/5  




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Exercise 1 Practice with Dominos for Beginners: What tiles are not on the table?

Fully guided instruction requires us to go step-by step.  Let's look at a game BACKWARDS.

What tiles have not yet been played?  (22 tiles are on the table, so how many are off the table?)



This exercise is helpful because you want to take inventory after every turn.

How many 1s are on the table?


How many 2s?


How many 3s?


How many 4s?


How many 5s?


How many 6s?


How many 0s?




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ANSWER

the last two plays were 

6/2,  2/2 and 2/0



Answers

not on the table:   1/0, 1/6 and 1/4.

How many 1s on the table? four


How many 2s?   four


How many 3s?  seven  ALL


How many 4s?   SIX


How many 5s?  SIX


How many 6s?   five


How many 0s?   five




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