Four players in two teams. Your partner sits across from you; the players on either side of you are your opponents. A double-six set has 28 fichas: seven each, and nothing left over to draw.

Each ficha has two ends, and each end shows a number from blank (0) to six. A double has the same number on both ends.

Turns go round the table one player at a time. On your turn, play one ficha that fits — or pass if nothing does. The first hand of a game always opens with the double six.

The open ends are the numbers at the two ends of the line of play. To play, a ficha must match one of them.

When nothing in your hand matches either open end, you pass: tap Paso. With Auto pass on (Settings → Controls), PlanetMesa passes for you.

A double lies across the line, and the open end it leaves still shows the same number.

Play your last ficha and you win the hand — that’s called going out (Dominó). Your side scores the points left in everyone else’s hands.

Tranque: nobody can play. The hand goes to the fewest points left in hand; the House Rules say exactly how ties and teams count.

The side that wins a hand scores the points left in the other hands, plus any bonuses for special plays the House Rules turn on.

The first side to reach the target score wins the game. Some tables count games instead: each hand won counts as one game.

Capicúa — winning the hand with a last ficha that fits either open end. Chuchazo — winning the hand with the double blank as your last ficha. Peseta — your ficha leaves the other three players unable to play, so the turn comes straight back to you. Pase de salida — the next player can’t answer the opening ficha. Each scores a bonus when the House Rules give one.

The host sets them before the game: the target score, a turn timer, which special plays score and how much, the words the table uses (Dominicana, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, English, or your own), and the table effects. House Rules in the table panel shows what any table plays by.

At an online table, before the game starts, tap Move here on an open seat and your card moves there. Between hands, Change seats does the same. Partners sit across from each other.

Tap a glowing ficha once to lift it, then tap it again to play it — nothing is played until that second tap. A ficha that fits both ends asks which end you mean. Press and hold a ficha (finger or mouse) and a menu opens beside it: Play it, Slam it down when the table allows Domino Slams, or Turn it round to read it the other way up.

Drag one of your fichas along your rack to a new spot. The order is yours alone — nobody else sees it.

View → Positions: My seat brings the camera back to your playing position, Table view looks straight down at the play, and Room view steps back to show the room. Look around by dragging the room (mouse wheel to zoom; on a phone, one finger turns and two fingers pinch to zoom). Reset view brings the camera home; Save current view keeps an angle for this room; Lock view keeps the camera still.

View → Domino size makes your own fichas bigger or smaller, and Domino tilt leans them from upright to lying back (Auto lets each view choose). Both change only your screen.

View → Show the line puts a small copy of the line of play in a box you can drag anywhere. Right-click it (press and hold on a phone) to pin it in place, size it, make it see-through, put it back, or hide it.

When the House Rules allow them, press and hold a ficha, then bring it down hard — the table shakes and everything on it jumps.

Score, Players, Table Talk, Music, Table & Room and House Rules live together in the panel beside the table. Fold it away with › and bring it back with Panel. On a phone it opens from the table handle.

Order puts a drink, a hookah or a cigar by your chair, where the whole table can see it — for players who have confirmed they’re 18 or over on their profile. Everyone else can order a glass of water. Tap your glass to sip; with Drink effects on, a few sips blur your view until you play.

Chat for everyone at the table — tap Table Talk anywhere on its bar to open or fold it. Messages stay at that table.

Tap a ficha to lift it and tap again to play it. One finger on the room turns the camera and two fingers pinch to zoom. View and More open as sheets from the bottom, and ▼ folds your controls away (▴ brings them back).