Mexican Train Dominoes Reviews

I thought I was the only one who felt like this but it’s apparent I am not. The game his very heavily weighed toward the computer players. They all team up against the human player (me and you). I thought it was a fluke until I started paying really close attention. They don’t play defensive against each other (playing out of turn on each other’s train, playing blocking dominoes, etc). But as soon as they can, they will play an open double and then play on your open train even if it’s a domino out of their train. I have never seen a more unbalanced game in my life. I have played literally hundreds of games and it always results in the same. The computer players team up so it’s always 3 against 1. Too unbalanced to be fun. It just turns into a frustration fest! Save yourself the trouble and get hearts or something else. This game is rigged to get you to buy their upgrades to play rounds over. Don’t fall for the money trap.

I have been playing this game fairly obsessively for 6 months. It has definitely improved my strategic game as I win more when playing in real life, but it is rigged so that the computer players get significantly better dominoes that the human player in a game with real people someone will be short the opening domino about 2-5 times in an entire game. With this game I will be missing the starting number that many times and more all by myself. I just deleted the game as it is far too frustrating and seems cruel on the part of the designers.

I’ve been playing MexicanTrainDominoes a long time now and I find this game to be as random as if playing with my family and friends. Though we play doubles differently, I quite like how its done on MexicanTrainDominoes. I win sometimes and I lose sometimes just like for real. I use this game as practice lining up my train. Once in awhile I use the auto train builder to see if I made the best choice. There are a lot of games out there that are worthy of complaints but this isn't one of them.

If you enjoy being cheated by bots, you will love this game. It is so fitting that the bots have robbers names. You will almost always have to draw before they do. When a double is played, and they have to draw, their score never goes up on the first round, but yours will. The player above you, Jessie James, is able to block your move 99 out of 100 times…especially if you could win the round. I love playing dominoes with real people and win my share of the time. This game is not fun!!! If you play to relax, find a game that has real people, not bots.

I spent - rather wasted - my time watching videos ads from TRAIN BUILDER in order to get a hint. I get 0 hints. Each time I think it will be better, but it isn’t. Don’t waste your time. Totally inconsistent. Yesterday I used Train Builder watching a video to get a hint. It refilled it to 9. Today I did the same thing and didn’t get a single hint. The developers still have a long way to go to make that a good choice for an app.

I love playing dominos and this version is easy to follow. However, the same computer was player does win over 75% of the time. But, the worst part is the lack of total randomness. It seems as if every time I get down to one tile left one of the other “players” will place an unplayable double. Or, if I have an open train as soon as I get a chance to close it the “player” above me will somehow manage to play a tile I cannot play on. Yes I know that is quite possible and the point of defensive play but the odds of it happening 3/4 of the time seem a little improbable to me. Lastly, I’ve had several times where I could swear I’ve played the same round multiple times.

I love the game but it is depressing because I seldom win. I win about every 10 or 12 times. That’s depressing. Another complaint, There is an ad for a missing girl stuck on the page and I cannot play the game, or get out of it. Also don’t like the sexually incinuating adds for the casinos I love the ga,e but, Now this game is stopping, going blank. And it takes hours before I can play it again. This game keeps freezing, and I get just a white screen. This is getting more frequent. And is frustrating. As of to day it has been locked two two days now. Please fix it.

I’ve been playing this game for months and love it. MexicanTrainDominoes updated a day ago and will no longer open on my iPad. I’ve tried turning my device off and on, deleting MexicanTrainDominoes and reinstalling it, but still won’t open. Very frustrating. Is it possible to go back to the previous version? UPDATE: Sent this message and developer responded that an update to support iOS12 was pending. Must have been approved as it works today. Thanks! Love this game even though I usually lose.

I am deleting MexicanTrainDominoes because the game is rigged against the human player as other reviewers have noted. The computer robots invariably wins each round and I usually end up having the highest points which means I lost that round. Frequently, one of the robots wins 5 -6 times in a game. It seems that every time I get close to winning a round one of the robots mysteriously comes up with a win. It is strange that the owners of MexicanTrainDominoes would program MexicanTrainDominoes in this way as players eventually get the message and stop playing instead of the owners programming MexicanTrainDominoes so that the humans win at least 50% of the time so they will continue using MexicanTrainDominoes . Not worth my time and deleting as soon as I complete this review.

The same player wins. I get frustrated not only seeing the same computer-based player pulling more than 50% of the doubles but also winning with more than 50% less score —slightly above 200 while my score is 420 to 450. I play this game with the family and it win 25% to 40% of the time, accorded no to the captured statistics. The game needs an update with proper randomization. I have never seen a player win 3 times in a row while they same player pulled 2 out of 3 of the starting doubles for the same games he or she won. Addicting to play to help improve on my skills playing the dominoes version with humans but frustrating.

The game definitely favors to computer players. That said, I used to enjoy playing for practice. There are ads between each game, and although you see the same ads over and over, they are not too bad. Now however there no X to click to get back to the game when the ad is through. Instead it takes to the download page in MexicanTrainDominoes Store and if you click done it takes you back to the X in an endless loop. I am giving up on this one and trying another one.

Better than other Mexican Train games out there. Really enjoyable. Since I haven't spent the money to use the "options" it seems like I haven't won a game since. If that keeps up will lose me. We'll see.

UPDATE: I do spend hours playing but do question the randomness of the deal and winning. I wouldn't spend money for the options available so maybe that explains the way the dominos fall.

In someone else’s review, they thought the game was rigged. I believe it’s true. I agree that you will lose 75% of the time. There are times I have tiles to play, and I can’t play them on either my train or the mexican train. I am assuming that you need to buy something to be able to play all the moves you should, so I bought 20 vouchers for 99 cents. I figured if I buy something I should get something, but I don’t know what I got; I still can’t make some moves I should be able to.

So I’ve accepted the fact that it is what it is. I play just to ‘practice’.
I would like to see the developer respond to the many negative criticism regarding the game being so one sided. At least confirm what many of us experience. And I would like to know what the 20 vouchers I bought get me. It certainly doesn’t allow me to make the moves I SHOULD be able to move.

Update: couldn’t take the one sided play anymore, I uninstalled it.

Best version of the game I could find! Only bug is that if the domino is too low in the lower center section of the screen, you cannot access it. Instead, you will swipe out of the game. It has only happened to me once but I could see it potentially happening again if not careful. This only is relevant for iPhones that do not have a physical home button.

I don't like how the game was changed. I liked it better without all the help. I would very much like to see it go back to what it was, or make 2 apps, one could be the original and one could be your new version, that I don't like !!!
I also would like to win more often. I hardly ever win and that isn't how it used to be. I used to win a lot, which makes the game fun. No one likes to loose every time they play a game. Soon they will go on to another one.

I was not able to start a line because my dominoes did not contain the starting number. When I tried to draw, it wasn’t allowed because I had not put down a domino. The game also did not allow me to pass because I hadn’t played a domino. In most rules of Mexican train, if you don’t have a starting Domino to start, a person has to draw and then pass, if there is not a leading domino to play in order for the game to continue. When this happened, the game is not able to start for any of the players. This appears to be a flaw with the game. Please fix this issue.

I have played this game over 5 years and while it has helped my playing in a real game, it can be frustrating. One game I played last night had one player winning all but 2 hands in the game and got a total of 23 points. The other 3 players each had between 500 and 800 points. Very unrealistic.

We play Mexican Train every Tuesday night at church and practicing on my phone helps me to play well each week. I will soon be 76 years old and this game keeps my mind sharp and makes for an enjoyable game for grandchildren to play. Our granddaughter began playing when she was eight and loves playing this nonviolent game on my phone.

Long ago and far away...MT used to be hard to win--very hard to win. So I quit for a long while. Got too discouraged (which is my wont😕). Then after a while I took another look and -- voilá -- I started winning. That's fun, of course, as well as the as well as the way to each is NOT predictable at all. I'm addicted "fer shure" but TY. Much later - I had again quit for quite a while as I was losing 90% of the time. Restarted lately but alas!! I’m still losing 99% of the time....

**UPDATE - still no response from developer.
Update:app freezes on my iPhone after I complete a game. Only way to get to a new game is to delete MexicanTrainDominoes and reinstall. No response from developer here and no way to contact developer through game or here on apple. A real shame. Also, it is "rigged" in that the robots never make a mistake so winning is darn near impossible. MexicanTrainDominoes keeps freezing on my iPhone (running current iOS). I bought the "remove ads" option and can't get to a new game. HELP please! I love the game and want to give it five stars but can't play it.

Thank you for reaching out and explaining the very easy fix!
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I have played this game for a few years now. I just updated my phone software and the new format is AWFUL!!! Why….WHY would you continually have to open and close to see and play your dominoes? I used to be able to see them all together, drag it and play. Now, open another screen, select a domino, flip back to another screen then play the domino? I went from sliding the piece immediately to four separate steps!!! Seriously?!?? WHY!? If I could give zero stars I would

MexicanTrainDominoes cheats. It itself plays by its own rules, makes up its own moves, and you’ll lose rounds that you might have normally won. Also in whatever was revised in this latest update, something has changed in how you earn vouchers. Sometimes you can watch 3 videos and earn nothing, sometimes just one. It used to be 3. I think I need to find a new app for this game. Very disappointed with thus app now. And to think I spent money for one of their T-shirts.

It sounds stupid but it is rigged against you. When forced to pick from bone pile, it always takes me 3-4 dominoes to get what I need. Computer always takes one maybe two. When computer has to draw, amazing, they can always play on theirs or another train! While you rack up 4-5 more. And you always draw the double 12 or 11 just in time for computer to go out.

I really like this game but was starting to get frustrated because out of playing so many games and only winning a very very low number of them, I just decided that I was going to make up my own rules. So, every time I come in last place, I tell myself that I won because I had the biggest number. I now win 49 out of 50 games. 😀😀😀.