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Review on ๐Ÿ— Mexican Chicken Aluminum Dominoes by KAILE by Ryan Hampton

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Colors in photo are not real

Friends and family told us about the Mexican train, so we bought a set of Cardinal Double 12s to play with. People distinguish which dominoes they are by [1] counting the dots and [2] marking the color for each number of dots. Even when we turned on the extra lighting in our dining room, we had a hard time discerning the color difference between the Cardinal Double Twelve Knuckle sets. So... we searched the internet for a set of double 12 dominoes whose colors were clearly distinguishable and which helped distinguish the numbers. The photo of Kaile's "Double 12" dominoes must have been retouched by hand by Kaile's marketing department as the photo shows the colors that are best on the internet for a set of 'Double 12' dominoes. Unfortunately the colors of the ankles that arrived at my house are very different from the marketing photo. When I unpacked and looked at the Kaile ankles, I was very disappointed. The green of the "Two" is only a tone lighter than the green of the "Eight", the lilac of the "Seven" is only a shade lighter than the lilac of the "Nine", the gray of the "Four" resembles the gray-blue of the " Fiveโ€, and the yellow of the "sixโ€ and "tenโ€ are almost identical. The Kaile set does not deliver any better colors than the cheaper Cardinal set. Both the Kaile set and the Cardinal set make colors "different" by adding some black to a color to make a color slightly darker than the base color. Other. Making 12 really different colors shouldn't be a difficult task. If you take primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, you have twelve colors. And if you replace similar tertiary/secondary colors with gold, silver and black, you end up with twelve very different colors. It's a pity that there isn't a single domino builder who understands this. And the last remark. Kayle's domino came with instructions for the Mexican train, but the writing is so microscopic I can't read it. Luckily, I already knew how to play when Kayle's dominoes arrived. If you don't know how to play Mexican Train, plan on printing out some instructions from the internet (or you can use a microscope to read Kayla's instructions).

Pros
  • High marks for hold and durability from testers
Cons
  • Lots