TILETALLY
Dominoes, done right — scoring, odds, and tile-game strategy.
From tallying a round and counting a set to working out draw odds, running a turn timer, building a tournament bracket, and checking a set’s tile count, TileTally pairs free hands-on calculators with practical guides and a richly illustrated museum. Family and social tile games, done right — no betting, no wagering.
Tile Game Calculators
Free tools for dominoes and tile games — round scorekeeper, set & combination counter, draw probability calculator, game timer, tournament bracket generator, and tile inventory tracker.
Domino Scorekeeper
Tally a round of block or draw dominoes from the pips left in every hand, whether someone went out or play blocked.
Domino Set & Combination Counter
See exactly how many tiles belong in a double-six, double-nine, double-twelve, or larger set, and how many are doubles.
Domino Draw Probability Calculator
Work out the odds of drawing a given number of doubles into an opening hand, using hypergeometric probability.
Tile Game Timer
Run a per-player time budget for a timed match, with an optional Fischer increment added back after every turn.
Tile Tournament Bracket Generator
Build a single-elimination bracket for any number of players, with byes and every matchup worked out for you.
Tile Inventory Tracker
Check a counted pile of tiles against what a domino or mahjong set should contain before a game starts.
Domino Set Reference
Every common double-n domino set size in one table: total tiles, doubles, total pip value, the largest hand you could deal evenly, and the odds a fixed-size hand comes up with no doubles at all
Museum of Tile Games
Wander an immersive, richly illustrated collection — domino sets and history, mahjong tiles, tile games from around the world, and historic and artisan tile craftsmanship, each in its own gallery. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Tour the museum →From the Journal
Clear guides on dominoes rules and scoring, mahjong tiles, regional tile-game variants, running a tournament, the math behind a set, and caring for an antique or well-loved set.
How to Play Block Dominoes: Complete Rules for Beginners
The classic domino game, start to finish — set-up, drawing a hand, making a legal move, and how a round ends, with a worked example round and the vocabulary every player picks up eventually.
Domino Scoring Explained: Draw, Block, and the "Fives" Variant
How points are actually counted in dominoes — the standard block/draw scoring rule, the blocked-game tiebreaker, and the popular 'fives' scoring variant, with worked examples run through the real scorekeeping function.
Mahjong Tiles 101: What Every Suit and Honor Tile Means
A plain-language tour of a standard mahjong set — the three suits, the honor tiles, the bonus tiles, and how the full 144-tile count adds up, tile group by tile group.
Mexican Train vs. Chicken Foot: Two Domino Games Compared
Both games use a double-twelve set and branching layouts, but the rules diverge fast. A side-by-side look at set-up, the hub, and how a round actually plays out, with real numbers for set size and hand math.
How to Run a Family Domino Tournament Night
A practical playbook for turning a stack of domino sets and a few hours into an organized, single-elimination tournament everyone can follow, with a worked bracket for an odd-sized field.
The Math Behind a Double-Six Domino Set (Why There Are 28 Tiles)
A double-six domino set always has exactly 28 tiles. Here's the combinatorics behind that number, how it generalizes to double-nine, double-twelve, and beyond, and the related formula for a set's total pip value.
Keep Learning
Plain-language explainers on the rules and basics of tile games, strategy and scoring, variants played around the world, and the materials and craftsmanship behind the tiles themselves — everything you need to go deeper with confidence.
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