Dominoes Gold - Domino Game 17+

Update. Still a great game but still a bit frustrating on the high frequency of pulling the best possible bone from the pile within the first pull or two. Other than that very entertaining and they’ve upped the $$$$ to very high limits. Top Skillz app out there.

Great game 1vs 1 is what i like playing. Higher stakes would be nice. The only thing about this app is that the developers decided that if a player forced another player to draw from the boneyard that person drawing will most likely be rewarded with a scoring domino. I know that it is always possible to draw a scoring bone, but in this app the % of you doing so is way higher than a table game of dominoes. The boneyard is by no means randomly chosen and the deal is also not chosen at random.

This app will constantly crash over and over and you will lose you entry fee. They will not refund you when this happens. What makes this worse is you need to win at least 60% of your matches just to break even. I win about 70% of my matches ( which should be a profit) and completely fail to make that profit due to lost entry fees in crashes. The only person making a profit is the site itself because they make 16.5% each time a game is played. So if you want to fatten their pocket be my guess other wise play a free app because you won’t win any money constantly ALL DUE TO POOR design, crashes, and bugs. Here’s the message you can expect to receive when you report a crash:

As we have explained, your rate of crashed match refunds exceeds our system norms by a significant margin. We are unable to offer refunds for any crashed matches until your crash rate is in line with the system average, at which point we will be able to offer refunds for crashes that occur after the rate has improved. Until such time as your refund rate improves, remember that you are playing at your own risk, and any matches played during this time will not be refundable, even if you become eligible for refunds in the future.

I received this message after my 5th reported crash...If you play this game consistently you will experience at least 5 crashes per day in live money games...Trust the 1 star reviews there are all facts!!

I typically don’t write reviews for apps. I delete the app and move on. But the money aspect, awkward scoring, and boneyard play of this game leads to this review.

Game play is not against “live” opponents in real time. Allegedly, you are matched against a live opponent but you each play against the computer Bot. The Bots have different skill levels and the player that beats the Bot by the most points wins. There is no way of knowing what your opponent is doing or how you are scoring in relation to your opponent? It’s not clear if you are playing the same computer bot as your opponent as well. Once the game ends, the computer determines the winner in the head to head match up based on points, speed of game, and margin of victory versus the Bot. This leaves a lot of room for manipulation of the score and there seems to be an exaggerated number of 1 point victories and loses.

I have played computer dominoes for 20 years and this is one of the worst set ups I have seen. The bone yard is one domino stacked on another and you don’t get to choose like other games. You get the top of the stack which seems a bit shady. On multiple occasions I was destroying an “expert” bot and the bone yard become the place the computer makes up points. Not enough to win, just enough so you can’t beat your “live” opponent.

Example, You can win 10 games in a row vs the bot, but end up losing all 10 games to the opponent.

I deleted and moved on.