Authentic Double-Nine Dominoes
IQ Dominoes is built around the 55-tile double-nine set — the version played in living rooms in Havana, Hialeah, Union City, and every Cuban household in between. No reduced sets, no house rules forced on you. This is the game your grandfather taught you.
Scoring honors the bonuses that make the Cuban table feel different: capicúa when you close both ends of the chain with the same tile, and pollona (shutout) when your opponent finishes the hand with zero points scored. Both bonuses surface clearly on the result screen so you can rub them in.
Pick your win condition before the match starts: first to 100 points for the long, classical match, or first to 3 hands for a faster session. Both are official options at the table; both are official options in the app.
Real Multiplayer, Real-Time
Four ways to play online, all on a server-authoritative backbone — the server is the source of truth for every move, so nobody at the other end can spoof a tile or rewrite the score.
- 1v1 — classic head-to-head. Find a stranger or invite a friend with a private code.
- 2v2 teams — you and your partner sit across the table, just like at home. Signals through the chain, no signals over the chat (because there is no chat).
- Free-for-all 4-player — four humans, no teams, first to three hands wins.
- 2 humans + 2 CPUs — perfect for couples who want to play together without rounding up two more people.
If your Wi-Fi drops mid-hand, you have a 30-second grace window to reconnect. The server holds your seat, pauses the clock, and drops you back into the same game with the same tiles. No lost matches because the bus went under a tunnel.
Post-Game Share Image New in v1.6
This is the headline feature of v1.6. After any meaningful result — a capicúa, a pollona, a match win, even a hard-fought loss — the app generates a clean 1080×1080 image of your final board, score, and result line.
The share sheet pre-fills a Spanish caption (with an English fallback) tuned for the moment: capicúa gets one line, pollona gets another, a comeback win gets a different one. One tap sends it to WhatsApp, Instagram Stories, Messages, or anywhere else iOS can share.
Every image carries a small iqdominoes.com watermark in the corner. Your group chats become install funnels, and your sobrina finally has proof you actually won.
Live Emoji Reactions New in v1.6
During your turn you can tap one of six curated emojis. An animated bubble floats up across your opponents' screens, big enough to see, fast enough not to slow the game down.
🔥 😂 🤔 👏 😱 🎉
The set is intentionally curated — no free-text chat, no custom uploads, no avenue for harassment. You get the trash-talking energy of the in-person table without the moderation problems of a chat box. Family-friendly by construction.
Live Queue Counter New in v1.6
Online matchmaking used to be a silent black screen. Now you see "3 players searching now" as soon as you join the queue, plus an elapsed timer counting up from zero.
If you've been waiting 30 seconds, the app surfaces a gentle "Play CPU instead?" prompt. Take it, or keep waiting — your call. The queue stays live in the background either way.
Daily Challenge + Streaks New in v1.6
Every UTC day, every player worldwide is dealt the same seeded game against a CPU. Same tiles, same opening hand, same starting double. Your strategy is the only variable.
Win or lose, your days-played streak ticks up. A counter on the home screen shows how many consecutive days you've shown up. Share your run with the same post-game image system — brag, recruit, repeat.
Solo vs CPU
No internet? No problem. The full offline mode runs entirely on your device against CPU opponents.
Three difficulty tiers: Easy (newcomers and kids learning the rules), Medium (your usual cousin), and Hard (counts tiles, remembers passes, plays the long game). Use the offline mode as a practice court for the bonuses, the blocked-game logic, and partner-side play before you take it online.
Safety & Privacy
Multiplayer is only fun if it stays civil. Every match screen has in-app Block and Report on every opponent — one tap, no friction.
Display names are filtered server-side against a profanity list before they ever reach another player. The list is enforced at the source, not the client, so a tampered build can't slip past it.
Privacy is on by default. You can opt out of anonymous analytics and crash reports from Settings at any time. The app is rated 13+, contains no gambling, and shows no ads during play. Full details on the Privacy Policy page.
Built for Cuban Families
This isn't a generic dominoes app with a Spanish translation pasted on top. The UI is Spanish throughout, written by Cuban-American developers who grew up watching their abuelos slap tiles on Saturday afternoons. The vocabulary, the cadence, the bonus names — all native to the diaspora table.
Diaspora rules are honored: the Cuban shutout is called pollona, not "skunk." Partner play sits two seats apart, not next to each other. Tiles can't be flipped or dragged sneakily across the table. The rules respect how the game actually gets played at the family reunion in West New York and at the domino park on Calle Ocho.
The goal isn't to reinvent dominoes. The goal is to honor the table where the stories actually happen — and let you carry it with you when you can't be there in person.