Mexican Train Dominoes Classic Reviews

by King Tutankhaman

This is a waste of time and phone space. It goes nothing like the actual game, loaded with annoying ads and freezes up in the ads so that you cannot get back to trying to play the lopsided version of the game offered! Just looking for a little diversion to help take your mind off inflation and the current pressures? Keep looking because this is NOT it!

by Danbyars

I hate the new update. It says that it is easier to read but everything is just more faint and hard to read. The bold colors from the previous version were a lot better and much easier to distinguish. There was no need to change the coloring format. The new change in color style is all pastel but is “easie” to read because the domino numbers are outline in black. I can only guess the developers are trying to make it more “trendy” and “sleek” so now it’s not modern. They should just have another app for this version and name it Mexican train dominoes Modern. It’s definitely not classic anymore. Classic dominoes means that they are the definitive dominoes which these hard to read, pastel dominoes are just cheap looking and a knock off

by Dbarnhardt

New format is awful! Forced to play all players hand instead of just your own removes all fun and competitive spirit. It takes away the speed of the game and any strategy plans for your player when you have to play the other players as well. Sadly, although this was my favorite game, I will probably have to delete the game because of the new format. It’s just not fun or enjoyable anymore.

by *Wolf

Wish there were more rule options. I’ve never played it where you have to cover a double someone else laid. And also never where you were allowed to end on a double unless there weren’t anymore dominoes to draw. And then I wish you could set it so the dominoes went up to the double twelve. Nine just doesn’t seem like enough, the trains end so quickly. Also I don’t get the difficulty settings. Aside from matching up what’s in your hand dominoes is pretty much a game of luck so i don’t even know where difficultly levels fit into it aside from being able to expertly form your own train. And all it seems to do is give me less matching dominoes which again should be all up to luck in the first place. And then half the time the computer just seems to know what I’m gonna play and what I have. So if I have barely any matches that round the other players just never use the public train unless I do first. I don’t know how the whole algorithm thing or whatever works so maybe it’s not possible to have the computer not know what’s in your hand but it seems like it should be...unless it doesn’t know and it’s just coincidence. But that’s a lot of coincidences.

by Sandottie

It was super fun at first but the more I played (easy, medium or hard levels), I noticed that all my hands of dominoes were the same ones! For example when the double 6 round was played, I had the same hand of dominoes as the last time I had the last time double 6 was drawn. So it gets boring. This game would be way more fun if the hands were all randomly drawn!

by LilJPMama

I don’t like how now all players but the actual real player get to have a name.... why can I not put in my name?! Even if you click to go to Facebook it doesn’t link to your Facebook like some other games it just takes you to their page. It was bad enough when you changed the colors but now moving the board so that the draw and pass are in the middle put them in the way of play. Not a fan .....

by Jmo111222333

Been playing this game for a while. Always on most difficult setting. Something happened in the last month or so. Historically, I won about 1/2 the time, if not more. Since ‘the change’ I don’t win. Heck, i regularly come in 3rd or 4th place.

It’s not statistically possible the way a certain player in a game consistently draws what is needed on any train. Over and over and over. While, honestly, I rarely draw any matches, get lousy trains, and when i draw, i regularly get dominoes with a larger than average count (11 would be the average).

I know how to play this game. I have made excellent trains and know what to look for while building a train.

Something happened and it took a lot of games before i decided to post this review.

by SDH17

My original Mexican Train eventually dies. I tried this new one for several hours, read all instructions and information and gave it a good chance. But I still do no like it at all. It changes the scoring without my choosing it. It changes from 13 rounds to 10 or 5 or one for no apparent reason. It doesn’t have an option to organize your train for you. And other problems I can’t remember. I want my original game back!

by Not Broken; Don't Fix

I have been playing the Gold version until recently and decided to try the Classic version. The game is fine, easy to play and almost addictive. However, many times after the first of three matches, the screen goes blank. I have to go back to my desktop, delete the game and go to APPs to pull it back from the “cloud” and reload. This happens often and is not worth the trouble.

by Vgreen50

I just downloaded this game again…had fun playing round one…and then…the ad…was soooo slow, and sooo long…and had to click 3 times when it ended…to get back to play round 2…. reminded me why I deleted it. Wish the ads were shorter. I don’t pay attention to them anyway. Sorry….

by RDE1911

I enjoy the game but I want complete chance when drawing tiles. I play the hard or pro and with my last 1 or 2 tiles I have to cover a double and probably over 90 percent of the time it’s a 15, 14, 13 or double. Why is that? I want the same chance that the other players have. Does the level I play make this occurrence? Very frustrated RDE1911

by Bentleyshelbylea

I love the aesthetic of MexicanTrainDominoesClassic, but it’s just unrealistic and frustrating. It’s unrealistic for the computers to ALWAYS get the dominos they need, for them to have 4 sets of doubles in a row, and to ALWAYS block my shots. I get these things happening every once in a while, but not every game. Frustrating that a strategic player has no chance.

by Corvette 1966girl

Like this game but wish there was a way to slow it down is bit, since I am a newbie and need to see how it plays out and especially the scoring at the end.. wish it would show individual scores and how we got to it.

by B3va1ry

The game has started cheating. At the end of each round one of them will play twice without a double to make me lose the round and let them win. This has happened on every game I played today which has been many. Please fix this!!

by Kevin&Jenn

I like the game — it’s a great way to pass time. That said, I paid $1.99 to remove ads about a year or so ago, and it worked fine. I hadn’t played the game for several months, and when I picked it up again, the ads were back. I used the “restore purchases” button in settings, but I’m still seeing ads.

It’s only $2, but I’m afraid if I pay to remove ads, it will ‘break’ again. No thanks.

by MexTrainWreck

I’ve played 4 games on the difficult level and won them all. Don’t get me wrong, winning is definitely great, however usually when you make a mistake it will cost you the game but you have learned something. The difficulty level needs to be upped IMO.

That being said, this is the nicest interface and the game plays by the standard rules making it very enjoyable. My old Mexican Train App was not updated by the developer so I’ve tried most of the other Apps and this one, by far, is the BEST!

by Pfstumpf

I’ve now been playing the Mexican Train game for sometime. I don’t like the fact that the game automatically blocks the trains before you know what you have an end of game and all the trains are blocked, but several players have tiles in the game that we played live. Somebody goes out to win.

I’d also like to see this game have an undo feature if you play a tile and you realized you played the wrong tile and wanna play another you don’t have the capability to do that. Other than that it’s a great game.

by Flightsimmom

This is the same game that I used to play under title Mexican Train Dominoes Gold. I loved that game until the developers “improved” and ruined it. This is the original version, only difference is it is played in portrait rather than landscape. This is the game to get. Highly recommended!

by Mmdrys

I wish they would change it up with different names but I have been playing this for a couple of years now and never get tired.

by Mcroy1908

My game switched for no reason I see from playing one hand against the board players (with names) to my having to verrry slowly play all the board players ( numbers only) against one player named hope? How can I regain my original play?

by DamienGirard

I love this game. I play using actual dominoes occasionally, and that’s why I discovered MexicanTrainDominoesClassic . Now I play several times a day & have been for a few years. If I have a few minutes to spare, I play a round. One feature I do wish it had is to play other people, and also a landscape mode.

by Nyrxman

I truly enjoy the hours I’ve spent playing. I only wish there were an online version so I can either play against members of my family it other online players. Any thoughts of developing such a version?

by Wordy :-)

This is not an improvement to the game. I much preferred it the way it was. The fact that we have no choice to go back irritates me. I liked playing sets of 3 games where you saw your opponents score each time. Why did you mess with perfection?