What is Domino?

Domino is the name of a series of tiles or blocks that are set up side-by-side in long lines. They are then tipped over, one after the other, to create a chain reaction called a domino effect. This can be applied to any number of objects, but dominoes are most often used because they are relatively inexpensive and easy to work with.

Domino has also become a metaphor for a business strategy or organizational structure that is designed to be resilient against adversity. This strategy focuses on listening to customers, making changes based on their input, and following through with the results of these actions. The company that practices this strategy is known as a domino company.

While some people use dominoes for playing games, others use them to create artistic designs. These can be as simple as a line of straight or curved dominoes, a grid that forms pictures when the pieces fall, or 3D structures like towers and pyramids. A domino artist is a person who creates these intricate designs. The art can be displayed in a home or public place and can be quite impressive.

The most common domino game involves two players and a double-six set of 28 dominoes with blank or white ends that range in color from one to six. The tiles are arranged in a boneyard or stock, and players draw tiles from this pile in turn. They may block their opponents’ play, or score points by removing all of the matching tiles from their hands. In addition to blocking and scoring games, dominoes can be used in positional games. In these, each player places a tile edge-to-edge against an adjacent one so that the values of the corresponding dominoes match or form a specified total.

Domino has been an ally of the time-traveling mutant Cable (Nathan Summers) since she met him as a career mercenary in her early adulthood. She later joined the Hong Kong branch of X-Corporation and fought alongside the X-Men. Domino has also worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. to oppose the traitorous Weapon X program and its director, Malcolm Colcord.

While dominoes can be tipped over with almost any object, their true strength lies in the fact that they can be stacked together to form much larger and more complex structures than would be possible with individual units on their own. In the same way, stories need scenes that advance the story and move closer or farther from its main goal, but those scenes should be carefully spaced so that they don’t feel too long (with details and minutiae that overwhelm the scene) or too short (with a lack of pace at key moments of discovery or plot point). This type of story construction is sometimes referred to as a “domino effect” because it mirrors how one simple action can have unforeseen consequences.