Vocabulario sobre el dominó
¡Ayúdame foreros!
I recently started learning to play dominoes with a group of Spanish speakers and I'm not familiar with the terminology, so I'm hoping someone here can help me out. And I'm playing with Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, BTW.
My questions are as follows:
(1) When you scramble/mix the fichas (?) around, what is that called? Por ejemplo, "tengo que ___ las fichas".
(2) I believe that when someone is unable to play a domino, the player unable to place a domino says "no va", and play goes to the next person. Does that sound right? How would I say that I can't make a play?
(3) It seems like there are multiple words for the dominoes themselves. I know I've heard mula, ficha and I think carta. Are those correct and are there other terms?
Any useful vocab you want to share and suggestions on trash-talking would be appreciated as well!
2 Answers
(1) When you scramble/mix the fichas (?) around, what is that called? Por ejemplo, "tengo que revolver las fichas".
(2) I believe that when someone is unable to play a domino, the player unable to place a domino says "no va", and play goes to the next person. Does that sound right? How would I say that I can't make a play? "Yo paso" or just "paso".
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For your first example I would probably use the word "mezclar", although there may be another word. I occasionally play dominoes with my brother in-law and his friends from Perú, when we cant make a move we say "paso".
