Lay a line of dominoes, flick the first tile, and score every one that falls.
One long night at the bar: eight hours, twenty-four tables, and a topple record of 4,491,863 waiting at the end.
Three tiles from your hand: 3|2, 2|5 and 5|1. Each bottom matches the next top, so they link into a Chain of 3, which starts the count at 20 chips and 2 mult.
Every tile that falls adds its top to your chips and its bottom to your mult.
30 chips times 10 mult: 300 for the topple. Patrons, patterns and materials push it far higher.
Every table is one line of dominoes, built from your hand. A tile's top counts for chips and its bottom for mult. Match the ends and they link; line up doubles, suits, runs and chains for bigger patterns.
Flick the first tile and the fall runs down the felt. Every tile that goes over adds to the count, and the topple scores chips times mult. Reach the table's target before your topples run out.
Between tables, spend your matches in the shop. Each patron you seat bends the scoring with one trick of their own. Chalk rewrites a tile, and crates are opened blind. There are five seats, and the order they sit in matters.
A run is eight hours of three tables each: a warm-up, a feature and a headliner. Every headliner brings a house rule, like Worn Ends, where the first and last tile score nothing.
Every piece of the game, one board at a time, drawn the way the game draws it.
Every table has a target. Lay a line from your hand, flick it, and whatever it scores goes towards the target.
Top halfadds 5 chips
Bottom halfadds 2 mult
Tap the tile to flip it, as you can in the game.
A tile links when its top matches the bottom of the tile before it. On the table the line runs left to right, with each tile's top half on the left. Links build the best patterns.
The whole line makes one pattern, the best it can. The pattern sets the chips and mult the topple starts from, before a single tile falls. Each tile that falls then adds to them.
Chips on the left, mult on the right. A rulebook page from the shop makes a pattern worth more for the rest of the run.
Most tiles are plain ivory. Chalk from the shop, a tile crate or the box you start with can make them something else, for good.
Patrons sit in your five seats and add to every topple. Each has one trick: more chips, more mult, x mult, matches, or a rule bent your way. There are 72 of them. Here are five, seated.
x mult multiplies whatever mult is there when its turn comes, so put the x ones last.
(10 + 10) × 2 = 40 mult
Drag a patron to another seat at any time. Sell one in the shop for half what you paid.
Matches are the money. A night starts with 4, and every cleared table pays out.
total+11
After the table: +2 interest
The third table of every hour is the headliner. It brings a house rule that bends that table only. A night draws 7 of these 11, so no two nights line up the same.
It opens after every table you clear. Everything is paid for in matches.
A reroll changes the stock for 5 matches. Tossing a tile you don't want out of your box costs 1. Both climb each time.
Your box is every tile you own. A run starts with one of six.
Eight hours, three tables an hour. Each hour ends on its headliner.
Warm-up Feature Headliner
in a single topple. It is waiting at the end of the night.
Swipe or use the arrows. Each one opens at full size.
Tumbalo is made in Unity by a solo designer in Croatia. The name comes from the Spanish túmbalo, “knock it down!”, and is said TOOM-ba-lo.
The game is still being made, and there is no release date yet.