Play More Kingdomino: Online and Tournaments

You can learn Kingdomino in fifteen minutes and keep finding new depth in it for years. This last lesson is about getting more games in: online when your table is empty, in official events when they run, and at public game nights and home tournaments, where a fifteen-minute game is perfect.

Play online

Board Game Arena has Kingdomino in your browser, for two to four players. Its options include the two-player and three-player setups, the Mighty Duel, Harmony, and Middle Kingdom, so you can practice exactly the version you want.

Online play is the fastest way to build the habits from this course. You see dozens of drafts in an evening, and lesson 4’s pricing and lesson 6’s counting start to feel automatic. Try one focus per session: one evening for counting the rich dominoes, another for reading rivals’ kingdoms.

Blue Orange also lists a digital version of Kingdomino, separate from Board Game Arena.

Official championships

Blue Orange has run official Kingdomino events in several forms:

• Kingdomino USA Championship at Gen Con 2019. A multi-stage event where the top players each hour advanced to a final, with a trip to the world championship in France for the US champion.
• Online championships on Board Game Arena in 2023. Blue Orange ran zone tournaments for the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Zone winners were invited to a world championship on Board Game Arena on March 26, 2023, organized by Blue Orange Europe.
• A national championship in France, run as a series of regional tournaments.

These events come and go. Check the Blue Orange blog for current news before you plan around one.

The Mind Sports Olympiad, a long-running games festival in the UK, has also listed Kingdomino among its events, played as two-player Mighty Duel games.

Find a public game night

Kingdomino is one of the best games to bring to an open game night: a small box, a five-minute teach, and a game that finishes before anyone gets restless.

• Your local game store. Many run open game nights. The Blue Orange store locator finds shops near you that carry its games.
• Libraries, cafes, and community centers. Our guide to finding a board game night near you covers where to look and what to expect.
• Indianapolis. Our guide to public game nights in Indianapolis lists where to play now. And join the Indianapolis list for first word on local learn-to-play nights as The Ludarium grows.

Run a Kingdomino tournament at home

Kingdomino is short and scores precisely, so it makes an excellent home tournament. A simple format:

1. Tables of four, or two for a duel bracket. Use one rulebook edition’s setup for everyone.
2. Play Dynasty at each table: three games, scores added. That evens out the draws.
3. Use Swiss pairing or a round robin for later rounds, rather than single elimination, so nobody is out after one game. Our guide on how to run a board game tournament explains both formats.
4. Agree on variants up front. Middle Kingdom and Harmony together are a common choice.
5. Keep the rulebook’s tiebreakers: biggest territory, then most crowns.

For a bigger picture of hosting, see how to host a game night.

Practice like a competitor

If you want to get better, not just play more:

• Price every pick out loud until it is instant.
• Track the rich dominoes, 41 to 48, in every game.
• Review your discards and empty squares. Each one is a layout lesson.
• Play the Mighty Duel against strong opponents. Nothing teaches the draft faster.

The end of the course

You can now play Kingdomino at any count, teach it in five minutes, avoid the first-game traps, price any domino in points, weigh value against turn order, count the crowns left in the box, lay out a kingdom that fills, read your rivals, finish strong, play the Mighty Duel, and find a table. The rest is games. The game is the reason. The people around the table are the point.