Game-Dominoes

Draw dominoes with All Fives (Muggins) scoring on a double six set, for two to
four players, as a reusable engine with a terminal game on top.

The engine does no input and no output. It never prints, never reads a handle,
never sleeps and never calls rand, so a game is a pure function of its seed and
its moves and replays anywhere. The terminal game lives in
Game::Dominoes::Terminal and the dominoes script, and nothing in the engine
loads either.

    dominoes --players=4 --hotseat
    dominoes --level=3
    dominoes --bot-vs-bot --seed=abc

The rules are pinned to Pagat's All Fives page as the primary source, because
dominoes has no single rule book and taking the most popular answer to each
question separately would produce a ruleset no publication describes, and so
one with no citable test vectors at all. Where this distribution departs from
that page, or fills a gap it leaves, the POD says so and says it is a house
decision.

The bot is handed one seat's view and reads nothing else, and there is a test
that proves that rather than trusting it.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test
	make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.

	perldoc Game::Dominoes

You can also look for information at:

	RT, CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
		https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Game-Dominoes

	Search CPAN
		https://metacpan.org/release/Game-Dominoes


LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 2026 by LNATION <email@lnation.org>.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)