Yard Dominoes

The TV is the table. Your iPhone is your hand.

Authentic Caribbean partner dominoes for Apple TV. Slam the double six, knock when you're blocked, and chase the six-love — with every player's tiles held privately on their own phone. No ads. No coins. Just dominoes the way the yard plays it.

Apple TV + iPhone 2–4 Players Partner Play No Ads, Ever

Why Yard Dominoes?

Every mainstream dominoes app plays American draw rules, buries you in ads, and shows everyone's hand on one screen. Yard Dominoes is different: real Caribbean block dominoes — no drawing from a boneyard, ever — built for the living room, where the game has always lived.

Your Hand Stays Private

Up to four players join with their iPhones. Your seven tiles live on your phone — legal plays glow, and one tap slams the tile onto the TV. Nobody peeks. Ever.

True Partner Play

Four players means fixed partnerships, seated opposite, winning together — the heart of Caribbean dominoes that no other app gets right. Two or three players? Cut-throat, everyone for themselves.

The Slam

Every tile lands with weight — a bone-on-board crack, a haptic thump in your hand, a shudder on screen. The game-winning tile hits harder. The six-love clincher shakes the room.

Six-Love

A match is first to six games. Win it 6–0 and the whole screen celebrates the humiliation — and it goes on your opponent's permanent record in match history.

Honest AI Opponents

Fill any empty seat with an AI that plays fair — it sees only its own hand and the board, exactly like a human in that chair. Choose the difficulty per seat.

No Phones? No Problem

Honor mode passes the Siri Remote around the room — a handoff screen guards each hand, with an optional hold-to-peek so tiles stay face-down between turns.

How It Works

  1. Open Yard Dominoes on Apple TV. The TV becomes the domino table — board, tile counts, and score, beautiful from across the room.
  2. Grab your iPhones. Each player opens the free Hand companion app and joins over your home network — no accounts, no sign-ups, no internet required.
  3. Play your tiles. On your turn, legal tiles light up on your phone. Tap to play, pick an end when both are open, or knock when you're blocked.
  4. First to six wins the match. Winner poses the next game. Phone rings mid-game? Lock it, take the call, come back — your seat is waiting.

The Real Rules, Locked In

Double-six set, seven tiles each, no boneyard drawing. The double six opens the first game; after that, the winner poses with any tile. Play rotates counter-clockwise. Blocked game? Count your pips — lowest hand wins. And when a rule stops you, the game tells you why, so the app settles the argument instead of starting one. A full plain-language rules reference is built in.

No pip counters or tracking aids either — you count in your head, like at a real table.

Pay Once. Play Forever.

A one-time purchase on Apple TV — see the App Store for pricing

Legal

Everything about how the app handles your information (short version: it doesn't collect any) and the terms that apply when you use it: