Gallery: Reinvented Dominoes Are More Addictive Than Candy Crush

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    In these wired times, designer Victor Alemán thinks we've lost touch with the tradition of gathering around a table to play a game. So he's designed a new one.
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    The Grid is a gorgeous set of tiles. The game plays out like dominoes, with a few twists.
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    In dominoes you can only play off each tile once, because they’re rectangles. In the Grid, you can play off each tile twice because twooden chips are hexagons.
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    The Grid also plays a little trick on you: the three sides of each piece are angled slightly downward, making it tough to discern the wooden hues without getting up and moving away from your phone.
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