All Fives

All Fives (also called Muggins or Fives) uses the same double-six set and the same matching. The difference: you also score during the hand. Whenever the open ends add up to a multiple of five after your play, you score that total.

The first tile counts too. Lead the 5-5 or the 6-4 and you score 10 right away; lead the 3-2 or the 4-1 and you score 5.

1. 1Deal five tiles each with three or four players, or seven with two. The rest stay face down as the boneyard.
2. 2Match an open end as usual. If you can't, draw from the boneyard until you can, or pass once it's empty.
3. 3After your play, add up the open ends. If it's 5, 10, 15 or 20, you score that many points.
4. 4When someone goes out, they also score the pips left in the other hands, rounded to the nearest five.
5. 5The first player or team to the target, often 150 or 250, wins.

Many tables play with a spinner: the first double can be played on all four sides. Once both of its long sides have a tile, players can also build off its two ends, so there are up to four open ends to add up.