Domino started out as a simple game: arranging a line of dominoes in a straight or curved line, flicking the first one and watching the entire row fall. It is this fundamental principle that makes the domino effect so famous.
As Domino grew, so did her skill and ambition. She went on to create mind-blowing domino art installations, including a 15-color spiral made with 12,000 dominoes and a 76,017-piece circular arrangement that set a Guinness World Record. She has worked on team projects involving up to 300,000 dominoes and is a regular collaborator with movies, TV shows and even musicians, including Katy Perry.
Domino’s ability to control luck is unconsciously controlled and triggered by stress. This is why she is able to avoid most danger, but also why she sometimes finds herself in volatile situations. The only way to stop her luck from working against her is for her to consciously take on a risky action.
In the case of Domino, this means putting herself in dangerous situations where she could be harmed by superhumans. As a result, she frequently finds herself in tense situations with her teammates from X-Force.
Domino has demonstrated that she can use her luck to her advantage, such as when she caused lightning to strike two sentinels in Civil War: X-men#1. She later used her powers to distract a helicopter and help escape from her captors Donald Pierce and Lady Deathstrike. She also used her luck to sabotage an assassination attempt against Cable by causing the machinery to malfunction.
In addition to playing games, dominoes can be used as a form of art or to display scientific concepts such as energy transfer. When creating a domino sculpture, the artist starts with a design on paper and then builds the structure with dominoes, one by one. Each domino has a distinct identity that is marked by an arrangement of spots (also known as pips) or a blank side, and the identity-bearing side is divided by a line or ridge into two squares. Each side of the domino has a different value, depending on how many pips it has and whether it is blank or identical to another piece.
A typical domino is twice as long as it is wide. The most common western domino sets consist of 28 tiles arranged in rows and a boneyard or stock, with each player drawing seven tiles from the stock. Each tile is a rectangular shape and typically has a number of dots, called pips or numbers, ranging from six to none or blank on each of the two faces. Most sets also have a color scheme that distinguishes each domino from others. Some sets are made of natural materials such as bone, mother-of-pearl oyster shell (MOP), ivory or a dark wood like ebony, with contrasting black or white pips inlaid or painted on. Other sets are made from plastic, metal or other materials such as stone or marble.