How to make paper dominoes with letters. Large domino made of handmade wood. We play with all the dominoes

Comrade Alexey Mokeev sent me a whole story about how he made a copy of the game himself Triomino. To do this, he needed modeling paste, an aluminum can, stationery, and some effort. And this is what came out of all this.

Story

Recently, friends had a chance to play a board toy - a triangular domino (Trimino, Triominos).

Short Description:

The three vertices of each domino contain numbers from 0 to 6. There are 56 dominoes in total, since the set does not contain all possible dominoes, but only those such that the numbers on the vertices go clockwise in non-decreasing order, if you start with the smallest value (or one of the smallest values). Two (or even one) or more people can play.

I really liked the game, and I decided to get my own copy. But here two problems arose: firstly, in Samara, neither specialized game stores nor any bookstores sell this game, and secondly, in Moscow online stores it costs from 890 rubles. and with a pre-order for 3 months in advance, which, of course, did not suit me. In this connection, I decided to make the game myself.

Process

To make it I needed:

• modeling paste (124 RUR for 500 g);
• aluminum can for any drink (23 rubles);
• ruler (in my case a tape measure);
• stationery knife or scissors;
• pen, paper, sharp cone-shaped object (in my case, a regular paint brush);
• several plastic bags, a rolling pin (or a cylindrical bottle);
• tape, plastic card (or any other hard material, cardboard for example);
• sandpaper (or needle file, file, etc.).

Material part: There are 56 "triminos" in a trimino. Each of them bears three numbers from “0 0 0” to “5 5 5” without repetitions.

Here is a complete list of all "triminos": 000, 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 011, 012, 013, 014, 015, 022, 023, 024, 025, 033, 034, 035, 044, 045, 055, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 122, 123, 124, 125, 133, 134, 135, 144, 145, 155, 222, 223, 224, 225, 233, 234, 235, 244, 245, 255 , 333, 334, 335, 344, 345, 355, 444, 445, 455, 555.

Those. Ultimately, all the work comes down to making 56 isosceles triangles with numbers printed on them in the right order.

I chose modeling paste as the material for making triminos:

There are several reasons: firstly, the paste is easy to work with (as far as I knew, I had never encountered it before), and secondly, options made from flat materials (isolon, for example, about which) are not suitable, because Triminos must stand vertically in front of the players; thirdly, this is a fairly cheap material. There was, of course, the idea of ​​making them out of wood, but it would have been very expensive and difficult, although perhaps more aesthetically pleasing.

First of all, I wrote out all the combinations of the triminoes on paper, so that later when putting numbers on the triminoes I wouldn’t get confused (photos will follow).

Next, I needed to choose the desired size of my trimino. After cutting out several options from paper, I settled on an edge length of 35 mm - it would be convenient to put numbers on such a triangle, and it would not be bulky. Once I had chosen the size, I began making a "mold" to cut triangles out of the paste.

I made the form from a cut aluminum can:

• cut off the top and bottom, smoothed them out from the folds;
• I used a knife to level one edge (which will be the “cutter”);
• I cut out a strip 35 mm wide from a plastic card;
• I bent aluminum around this strip three times and cut off the excess;
• I wrapped the resulting form with tape so that it would not fall apart.

The top line cuts off the excess (56 triangles do not completely fill the outer triangle with an edge of 280 mm).

After that, using a bottle, I rolled out the entire piece of paste to fill the drawn trapezoid. The first time I couldn’t roll out the desired shape or even thickness, I did this 2-3 times, fortunately the paste easily crumples and rolls out again. Unfortunately, there are no photos here, because... I was in a hurry so that the paste wouldn’t harden, and I was afraid to stain the phone I was using to take the photo. It should be noted that at room temperature the paste remains quite soft for 2-3 hours, although while I was cutting into triminos and then putting numbers on them, I tried to keep the currently unused parts of the paste covered with polyethylene.

After about 1.5 hours, this is what happened - 56 almost isosceles triangles:

Next, using a pre-prepared cheat sheet with combinations, I applied all the combinations to the triminoes with the back of a brush (the one without lint). It took me about 2 hours, because... In addition to applying the numbers, I also straightened out the edges of the triminoes a little so that they would look more like isosceles triangles, and also kept an eye on the back side of the triminoes so that there were no “noticeable” defects on it, by which they could be remembered. Because the paste was still soft - and the shape of the ribs and surface defects were easily corrected by spreading it with a finger. This is what happened at the end:

In this form, the triminos were left to rest for 24 hours (as written on the paste packaging):

(in the photo the paste looks yellow, in fact it is light gray).

Of course, I didn’t wait 24 hours. In the morning (10 hours later) the paste was already warm and hard. You can proceed to the next stage - smoothing the edges of the triminoes with sandpaper (or a file).

This part of the work turned out to be the dirtiest - there was dust everywhere... The task of alignment was to ensure that the triminoe stood on all 3 faces. The photo shows that all the triminoes were placed vertically, with only 2 or 3 standing on only 2 faces, the rest on all 3.

In general, this is where the main work ends. Next, we plan to paint the numbers on the triminoes in different colors and, possibly, cover them with glossy varnish for beauty. But that's for next time. At the end is a photograph of a trimino folded according to the rules:

I just couldn’t find where to put the top two triminoes.

As a result, I am pleased with the result. Of course, I didn’t get 56 absolutely identical and even triminoes, but I didn’t set such a task for myself, because, firstly, I was limited in time, and, secondly, it was the first time I worked with such a paste (yes and with pasta in general), and, to be honest, I wasn’t at all sure that anything would work out. But it worked!

Thank you for your attention.

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6. two fives and 5\6;
7. two sixes.

We leave the paint to dry and after a while you can play on the grass.