Chicken Foot (game) - Ending A Round

Ending A Round

A round is over when either one player plays the last domino in their hand or no players can make a legal play. The latter situation can occur if someone plays a double that no longer has three remaining free dominoes to play on it and is common with smaller sets once the boneyard is exhausted.

At the end of each round, each player sums up the spots on the dominoes in their hand, which becomes their score for that hand and is added to their running total. Alternately, when all players still have dominoes remaining, the score can be "curved" by reducing each player's score by the lowest score (the player with the lowest count thus gets no points as if they had emptied their hand). The score keeper tallies up all scores, crosses out the double that lead the round and the next round begins. In each subsequent round, the highest double drawn that has not yet been used to start a round starts the next round. When a round for each double has been played, the game is over and player with the lowest score wins.