Mexican Train

Mexican Train is a tile-based game played with a set of dominoes, most commonly a double-twelve set of ninety-one tiles, in which two to eight players build one or more chains of matching tiles, called trains, that radiate outward from a central hub known as the station. Each player extends a personal train from their own hand while also having the option to play onto the shared Mexican Train that stays open to every player through the round. The modern ruleset traces to Latin American domino traditions that grew out of pai gow, brought to the Americas by Chinese laborers in the mid-1800s and adapted into regional games such as Cuba's Longana; the game reached wider American popularity under its current name after Cuban and Mexican laborers introduced it in the following decades, and the contemporary standardized rules were copyrighted by Roy and Katie Parsons in 1994. Scoring is based on the pip totals remaining in a player's hand at the end of each round, with the lowest cumulative score across all rounds determining the eventual winner.