Where can I buy a set of dominos in playing card form?

July 15, 2010 12:53 PM

Where can I buy a set of dominos in playing card form?

I want a deck of cards, but instead of the normal playing card set I want it to be dominos. Googling is just turning up tons of sites that sell both playing cards and dominos, but not domino playing cards.

Where can I get these on the internet or in the bay area?

posted by bradbane to shopping (10 answers total)

Here? It's hard to tell exactly what their sets consist of.
posted by oneirodynia at 1:15 PM on July 15, 2010

Here are some.

I have never heard of them before, were these common at one point?
posted by travis08 at 1:15 PM on July 15, 2010

oneirodynia - I can't tell either. A double six / double nine domino set is 28 or 55 pieces and their decks are 29 and 58? Weird.

travis08 - Those look perfect, but I want this for backpacking and don't really want a $25 leather bound set.

I feel like this is something I should be able to buy for a couple of bucks but I can't find it!
posted by bradbane at 1:58 PM on July 15, 2010

There's this, but I can't figure out how to buy them. (maybe it will put you on the right track - but in reality probably still $20 by the time you pay shipping).
posted by Edward L at 2:34 PM on July 15, 2010

The link oneirodynia provided may contain jokers, the would account for the disparity. Small set one joker and large set three?
posted by travis08 at 2:35 PM on July 15, 2010

Of course, there's always a black sharpie and a deck of cards.
posted by Edward L at 2:36 PM on July 15, 2010

Printable Dominoes - Sorta kiddie though.
posted by msbutah at 3:11 PM on July 15, 2010

A less kiddie printable dominoes.
posted by msbutah at 3:14 PM on July 15, 2010

Sorry I just noticed that was a subscription required site. Here's a different option to print off some dominoes.
posted by msbutah at 3:16 PM on July 15, 2010

To follow up to my own question, American Science and Surplus had two options that worked out, a "animal domino" playing card set, and some small, travel dominos that are lightweight plastic. I can't figure out how to link to things on their store, but if you search "domino" it will pop up.
posted by bradbane at 8:34 PM on September 3, 2010