Derived from traces a game back to the older form it grew out of. Wikipedia notes "forms of football in which the ball was carried and tossed date to the Middle Ages," a lineage rugby football drew on before splitting further "into the modern sports of rugby union and rugby league" in 1895. This dimension shows the sequence of games that led to a given one.
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1. Wikipedia: Dominoes
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An identifiable version of Chinese dominoes developed in the 12th or 13th century.
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Domino and Tile Games Share a Move, Not a History
Three Tile Games, Three Centuries, No Shared History
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is Carcassonne classified as a tile game rather than a card game?
Carcassonne's pieces are tiles, not cards, so it belongs among the tile games even though its laying mechanic resembles some card games.
Domino and Tile Games covers games played with tiles rather than cards or a fixed board, including Dominoes, Mahjong and Carcassonne. Any tile-based game belongs here, whether the tiles are matched, laid to build a shared layout, or drawn and discarded, even where the mechanic resembles a card game.