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Boneyard: read a friend five letters and they are across the table.

Dominoes, head to head. Open a private room, give a friend the code, play them right now. Draw, Block and All Fives, a turn clock so nobody stalls, coins on the line if you want them, and a house that never sleeps when nobody else is on.

Paid Friday evening, live Monday morning Four changes done in ninety minutes Coins, never cash
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Boneyard
John Davis · built by The App You Want
GameMultiplayerCoinsRanks
Real screens
The Boneyard sign in screen
The doorAn email and a six digit code. No password. And the app never texts anybody.
Set the game up: Draw, Block or All Fives, play to, stake
Set it upDraw, Block or All Fives. Play to 50, 100, 150, 200 or 250. Friendly, or coins on the line.
Your room is open with a five letter code
The roomFive letters. Send the link, copy the code, or read it down the phone. The room stays open twelve minutes.
A domino line folding across the felt
The tableThe line folds as it grows, so the whole game stays on one screen. Both open ends called out in brass.
The boneyard fanned out face down
The boneyardCannot go? The yard fans out face down and you reach in and take the one you want. Nobody hands you a bone.
Sample opponents played by the house
Never emptySample opponents played by the house, so there is always a game the day it opens. Gone with one command when real players show up.
Coins and coin packs, priced
CoinsA free 250 a day whenever you drop under 500. Packs priced from $1.99 to $34.99, switched on when the owner connects the account.
The board and the ladder from New bones to Boneyard king
RanksA weekly board, head to head only. A ladder from New bones to Boneyard king. Points come from playing, not only winning.
See it live

Sit down at a table

Sign in with your email, tap Play the house, and you are playing in under a minute. Open a private room and read the code to a friend.

Open Boneyard →
The challenge
"I haven't found a good one yet."

John plays dominoes. The application, on a Monday night, was one line: a domino app where you can play each other or other people. What it replaces: I haven't found a good one yet. Who uses it: me and my team, daily.

The call was Tuesday morning. The offer went out an hour after it. Then three days of quiet, until Friday evening: yes, still want it, and here is an app I like, make something similar. The payment landed five minutes later.

Monday at 10:04am the first look was live. By 10:36 John had sent four things to change. By 12:07 all four were done.

What we built
A domino table with the door open.
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Private rooms

Open a room and get five letters. Read them to a friend down the phone and thirty seconds later you are playing. The part John could not find anywhere else.

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Three games, real time

Draw, Block and All Fives, with a turn clock draining along the brass rail so nobody stalls. Find me anybody when no friends are on. Play the house when nobody is.

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Coins on the line

Both players put up coins, the winner takes the pot, the house keeps a cut of every one. Packs are priced and waiting on the owner's account. Coins, never cash: paying cash out is regulated gambling, and we said so on day one.

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Ranks and a house console

A weekly board, win records, a ladder from New bones to Boneyard king. And a console for the owner: players, tables, coins, refunds, the sample opponents, all in one place.

The signature feature
The four things John noticed, done before lunch

The first look went out at 10:04 on a Monday. At 10:13: you cannot see the whole table, and it tells you what to play. At 10:36: let me pick what we play to, and let me draw my own bone from the boneyard. By 12:07 the table folded so the whole game sat on one screen, every bone in the hand was live with nothing pointing at the right one, play to 50 up to 250 was a choice before the game, and the boneyard fanned out face down so you reach in and take the one you want. Four changes, one message back: done, tell me what else.

Table folds on one screenNothing tells you what to playPlay to 50 to 250Draw your own bone
How it moved
Monday night application to a Monday morning table.
3 Aug
Applies at 10:49pm on a Monday. A domino app where you can play each other or other people. Books a call for the morning.
4 Aug
Call at 10:30am. Green light and the full offer at 11:26am: private rooms, matchmaking, and the stakes mode where the app keeps a cut of every pot.
7 Aug
Friday 5:33pm: still want it, and here is an app I like. Paid at 5:38pm.
10 Aug
Monday 10:04am, first look live. 10:13 to 10:36, four things to change. 12:07pm, all four done.
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