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|{{w|Christian Campbell}}
|A parody of Alistair Cooke "played" by Cookie Monster in the Sesame Street sketch "Monsterpiece Theatre" in the 1980s, a parody of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre".
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|James Cook <br>Alastair Reynolds
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|{{w|James Cook}}
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|{{w|Columbo}}
|18th century British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.
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|Alistair Cooke <br>Cokie Roberts <br>Alistair Cookie <br>James Fenimore Cooper
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|{{w|Chris Columbus (filmmaker)|Chris Columbus}}
 
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|Columbo <br>Christopher Columbus <br>Chris Hughes
 
|Last-Only (approximate) <br>First-First (approximate) <i>and</i> Last-Last <br>First-First
 
|Last-Only (approximate) <br>First-First (approximate) <i>and</i> Last-Last <br>First-First
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|{{w|Christopher Columbus}}
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|{{w|Christian Campbell}}
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|{{w|Katherine Johnson}}
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|{{w|The Rock}}
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|{{w|Chris Rock}}
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|{{w|Chris Isaac}}
 
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|{{w|Neve Campbell}}
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|{{w|James Newton Howard}}
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|{{w|John Wayne}}
 
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|{{w|Howard Hunt}}
 
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|{{w|Joseph Smith}}
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|{{w|Naomi Watts}}
 
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|{{w|Etta James| Etta James 1}}  
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|{{w|Naomi Klein}}
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|{{w|Kevin Kline}}
 
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|{{w|Etta James| Etta James 2}}
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|{{w|Francis Bacon}}
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|{{w|Francis Drake}}
 
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|{{w|Lyndon Johnson}}
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|{{w|Oscar the Grouch}}
 
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|{{w|James Watt|James Watt (Steam)}}
 
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|{{w|James G. Watt|James Watt (Interior)}}
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|{{w|Kevin Costner}}
 
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|{{w|Kate Hudson}}
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|{{w|Kevin Bacon}}
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|{{w|Kevin Love}}
 
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|{{w|Rock Hudson}}
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|{{w|Lisa Frank}}
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|{{w|Frank Drake}}
 
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|{{w|Drake}}
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|{{w|Oscar de la Renta}}
 
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|{{w|Chris Rock}}
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|{{w|Oscar de la Hoya}}
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|{{w|Sean Hayes}}
 
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|{{w|Chris Isaac}}
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|{{w|Wallace Shawn}}
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|{{w|Wayne Brady}}
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|{{w|Helen Thomas}}
 
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|{{w|James Brown}}
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|{{w|Tom Hanks}}
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|{{w|Hank Aaron}}
 
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|{{w|Gordon Brown}}
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|{{w|Aaron Carter}}
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|{{w|Stephen James}}
 
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|{{w|Will Smith}}
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|{{w|Kevin Smith}}
 
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|{{w|John Wayne}}
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|{{w|Kein James}}
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|{{w|Garfield}}
 
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|{{w|John Howard}}
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|{{w|James Garfield}}
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|{{w|Warren Buffett}}
 
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|{{w|Howard Stern}}
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|{{w|Jimmy Buffett}}
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|{{w|Warren Beatty}}
 
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|{{w|Elizabeth Warren}}
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|{{w|Earl Warren}}
 
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|{{w|Helen Hunt}}
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|{{w|Eliabeth Kolbert}}
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|{{w|Stephen Colbert}}
 
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|{{w|Helen Hughes}}
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|{{w|George Wallace}}
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|{{w|Christopher Columbus}}
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|{{w|Hank Williams}}
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|{{w|William C. Williams}}
 
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|{{w|Columbo}}
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|{{w|Steve Harvey}}
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|{{w|Domino Harvey}}
 
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|{{w|Harvey Milk}}
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|{{w|James Saint James}}
 
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|{{w|Tom Hanks}}
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|{{w|Etta James}}
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|{{w|Jim Jones}}
 
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|{{w|James Earl Jones}}
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|{{w|Charlie Parker}}
 
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|{{w|Aaron Carter}}
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|{{w|Ray Parker Jr.}}
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|{{w|Ray Charles}}
 
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|{{w|Hank Williams}}
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|{{w|Charles Manson}}
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|{{w|Marilyn Manson}}
 
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|{{w|Robin Williams}}
 
|{{w|Robin Williams}}
 
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|{{w|Billy D. Williams}}
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|{{w|Will Wright}}
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|{{w|Fats Domino}}
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|{{w|Bill Clinton}}
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|{{w|Jimmy John}}
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|{{w|Tom Jones}}
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|{{w|Tommy John}}
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|{{w|Quincy Jones}}
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|{{w|James Earl Ray}}
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|{{w|Man Ray}}
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|{{w|Rachel Ray}}
 
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|{{w|Billy D. Williams}}
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|{{w|Ray Allen}}
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|{{w|Tim Allen}}
 
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|{{w|William C. Williams}}
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|{{w|Tim Cook}}
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|{{w|Tim Howard}}
 
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|{{w|Robin Wright}}
 
|{{w|Robin Wright}}
 
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|{{w|Wilbur Wright}}
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|{{w|Fatty Arbuckle}}
 
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|{{w|Will Wright}}
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|{{w|George Clinton}}
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|{{w|Kerry Washington}}
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|{{w|John Irving}}
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|{{w|John Adams}}
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|{{w|Ayn Rand}}
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|{{w|Lily Allen}}
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|{{w|Paul Allen}}
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|{{w|Wasington Irving}}
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|{{w|Jack Ma}}
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|{{w|Jack Black}}
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|{{w|Rand Paul}}
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|{{w|Paul Simon}}
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|{{w|Ron Paul}}
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|{{w|Langston Hughes}}
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Revision as of 13:47, 22 March 2018

Name Dominoes
In competition, you can only play a name if you know who the person is. No fair saying "Frank ... Johnson. That sounds like a real person! Let me just Google him real quick."
Title text: In competition, you can only play a name if you know who the person is. No fair saying "Frank ... Johnson. That sounds like a real person! Let me just Google him real quick."
  • A large version of the comic picture can be found here.
  • A numbered version can be found here.

Explanation

Ambox notice.png This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Created by a Domino: Do NOT delete this tag too soon. Someone should create 1) a table with all names with wiki links and explanation, especially on inside jokes and 2) a full transcript... and good luck with that. The transcript should not have wiki links they are for the table!
If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks.
Dominoes is a family of boardgames played with rectangular "domino" tiles. A domino tile is divided into two squares, each displaying a number. Under most rules, a domino tile is placed on the table adjacent to another tile, and the adjacent ends must match in some way (namely by the number displayed on the touching ends). Randall's "name dominoes" shows a set of domino tiles with people's names instead of numbers, and adjacent tiles are matched by whether the closest name is the same (such as how Chris Evans' family name matches Evan Taylor Jones' given name).

The title text spells out a rule that a player may only place a tile if they know who that person is. This is a variation of a rule in Scrabble, where a player loses a turn if their chosen word don't survive a dictionary challenge over the validity of the word. This rule implies that players are allowed to create new name dominoes tiles and that it is not a fixed set. In this case the player that is challenged has used the name Frank Johnson of which there are 12 exact matches on Wikipedia along with six with a middle name and more. In a google search as of the day the comic came out the first hit was Frank Johnson who is a retired American professional basketball player and coach. Randall has made several references to basketball in his comics.

A large board is covered in rectangular "dominoes" (270), with each domino bearing the name of a "well-known" person or character (fictional). The dominoes are arranged as if a game of dominoes were being played, but instead of the game requiring the number of spots of adjacent dominoes to match up, this game requires adjacent names to match up. Because most people have two or more names, different matches are made at each end of a domino. Fun fact is that at least one of the people is "named after" the game: Domino Harvey. The match can be exact (e.g., "Kevin" on one domino adjacent to "Kevin" on another), homonymic (e.g., "Klein" adjacent to "Kline"), or nickname-based (e.g., "James" adjacent to "Jimmy", which in turn is adjacent to "Jim"). Sometimes last names are matched up with first names (e.g., "Elizabeth Warren" adjacent to "Warren Beatty"), and in some cases only a single name is used (e.g., "Columbo", "Drake", "Garfield", "Prince"), in which case a half-size square "domino" might be used, or it might be a full size one ("Batman", "Garnet", "Superman"). Some people have three or more names (e.g., Frank Lloyd Wright), in which case a 50% longer than normal domino results and matching to a middle name (Lloyd) is possible. There doesn't appear to be absolute consistency on the length of the domino vs the number of words in the name.

The names come from a wide variety of fields: scientists (e.g., Isaac Newton), historical figures (George Washington), musicians (Drake), politicians (John Kerry), actors (Kevin Costner), writers (Washington Irving), fashion designers (Oscar de la Renta), and so on. Most of the names are real people but a few are fictional characters, possibly non-human (Super Grover).

One notable reference beyond just the use of a name is in the bottom left, there is the connection [ William Safire ][ Garnet ][ Ruby, Jack ]. At first the only connection seems to be that Sapphire, Garnet and Ruby are all gemstones. At first this seems to be an incorrect connection as for the rules of the game. However, this is in reference to the character Garnet in the cartoon Steven Universe, who is a "fusion" formed by two Gems: Ruby and Sapphire, hence the legal connection in the Name Dominoes... Randall has previously made references to this universe in 1608: Hoverboard. (See this and this image from that comic).

Another potential mismatch is Topher Grace, where "Topher" is matched to several instances of "Chris," and both names may be shortenings of "Christopher."

In at least one case it is not entirely clear who is being referred to: "John Kelly" most likely refers to Gen. John F. Kelly, Donald Trump's chief of staff, but the name is extremely common and could equally refer to any number of people.

Table of names

Domino Notability and notes Connections Mode #
Christian Campbell 1
Neve Campbell 2
Joe McCarthy 3
Eugene McCarthy 4
Gene Vincent 5
Gene Kelly 6
Kate Hudson 7
Rock Hudson 8
Gordon Brown 9
James Brown 10
Jon Brown 11
John Howard 12
Columbo 13
Chris Columbus Film director and screenwriter. Columbo
Christopher Columbus
Chris Hughes
Last-Only (approximate)
First-First (approximate) and Last-Last
First-First
14
Christopher Columbus 15
Naomi Campbell 16
Joseph Campbell 17
Joseph Smith 18
Frank Vincent 19
John Kelly 20
Katherine Johnson 21
The Rock 22
Chris Rock 23
Chris Isaac 24
James Newton Howard 25
John Wayne 26
Howard Stern 27
Howard Hunt 28
Chris Hughes 29
Naomi Watts 30
Naomi Klein 31
Kevin Kline 32
Francis Bacon 33
Francis Drake 34
Lyndon Johnson 35
Oscar the Grouch 36
Oscar Isaac 37
Isaac Hayes 38
Isaac Newton 39
Wayne Newton 40
Wayne Knight 41
Helen Hunt 42
Helen Hughes 43
James Watt (Steam) 44
James Watt (Interior) 45
Kevin Costner 46
Kevin Bacon 47
Kevin Love 48
Lisa Frank 49
Frank Drake 50
Drake 51
Oscar de la Renta 52
Oscar de la Hoya 53
Sean Hayes 54
Wallace Shawn 55
Wayne Howard 56
Wayne Brady 57
James Brady 58
Tom Brady 59
Helen Thomas 60
Tom Hanks 61
Hank Aaron 62
Aaron Carter 63
Stephen James 64
Will Smith 65
Kevin Smith 66
Kein James 67
Garfield 68
James Garfield 69
Warren Buffett 70
Jimmy Buffett 71
Warren Beatty 72
Elizabeth Warren 73
Earl Warren 74
Eliabeth Kolbert 75
Stephen Colbert 76
George Wallace 77
Charles Wallace 78
James Monroe 79
Marilyn Monroe 80
Hank Williams 81
William C. Williams 82
Steve Harvey 83
Domino Harvey 84
Harvey Milk 85
James Saint James 86
Etta James 87
Jim Jones 88
James Earl Jones 89
Charlie Parker 90
Ray Parker Jr. 91
Ray Charles 92
Charles Manson 93
Marilyn Manson 94
Robin Williams 95
Billy D. Williams 96
Will Wright 97
Fats Domino 98
Bill Clinton 99
Jimmy John 100
Tom Jones 101
Tommy John 102
Quincy Jones 103
James Earl Ray 104
Man Ray 105
Rachel Ray 106
Ray Allen 107
Tim Allen 108
Tim Cook 109
Tim Howard 110
Robin Wright 111
Wilbur Wright 112
Fatty Arbuckle 113
Fat Joe 114
George Clinton 115
John Kerry 116
Kerry Washington 117
John Irving 118
John Quincy Adams 119
John Adams 120
Amy Adams 121
Aimee Mann 122
Superman 123
Batman 124
Ayn Rand 125
Lily Allen 126
Paul Allen 127
Ron Howard 128
Howard Hughes 129
Joe Kennedy 130
George Bush 131
George Wasington 132
Wasington Irving 133
Martha Wasington 134
Ma Rainey 135
Jack Ma 136
Super Grover 137
Jack Black 138
Rand Paul 139
Paul Ryan 140
Paul Simon 141
Ron Paul 142
John Hughes 143
Langston Hughes 144
John F. Kennedy 145
Little Richard 146
Rich Little 147
Martha Stewart 148
Yo Yo Ma 149
Ma Bell 150
Grover Cleveland Alexander 151
Grover Cleveland 152
Jack White 153
Jack Ryan 154
Debby Ryan 155
Carly Simon 156
Carly Hughes 157
Charles Evans Hughes 158
John Williams 159
Little John 160
Stuart Little 161
Potter Stewart 162
Kristen Stewart 163
Kristen Bell 164
Kristen Hooks 165
Alexander Graham Bell 166
Franklin Graham 167
Lloyd Alexander 168
Meg White 169
Meg ryan 170
Debbie Reynolds 171
John Reynolds 172
Carly Fiorina 173
Grace Lee Boggs 174
Wade Boggs 175
William Safire 176
Prince William 177
Little Prince 178
Harry Potter 179
James Potter 180
James Hook 181
James Dean 182
Aretha Franklin 183
Frank Lloyd Wright 184
Barry White 185
Walter White 186
Walt Whitman 187
John Kelly 188
Grace Lee 189
Nancy Grace 190
Garnet 191
Prince 192
Prince Felder 193
Prince Harry 194
Harry Styles 195
John Dean 196
Benjamin Franklin 197
Harrold Lloyd 198
Harrold Ford 199
Betty White 200
Meg Whitman 201
Christine Todd Whitman 202
Megyn Kelly 203
Grace Kelly 204
Grace Jones 205
Jack Nicholson 206
Jack Ruby 207
Jack Russel 208
Harry Fielder 209
Harry Trueman 210
Harry Jon Benjamin 211
John Edward 212
Benjamin Harrison 213
Harrison Ford 214
Henry Ford 215
Betty Ford 216
Betty Friedan 217
Chris Christie 218
Chris Pratt 219
Maggie Grace 220
Grace Hopper 221
Russel Crowe 222
Russ Smith 223
John Smith 224
Justin Long 225
John Bel Edwards 226
John Candy 227
John Henry 228
Henry James 229
Bill James 230
Chirs Cooper 231
Chirs Hemsworth 232
Chirs Evans 233
Topher Grace 234
Van Morrison 235
Sheryl Crow 236
Sheryl Sandberg 237
Cameron Crow 238
Long John Silver 239
Olivia Newton John 240
Huey long 241
John Edwards 242
Candy Crowley 243
Alestier Crowley 244
James Fenimore Cooper 245
James Cook 18th century British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Alistair Cooke
Cokie Roberts
Alistair Cookie
James Fenimore Cooper
Last-Last (approximate)
Last-First (approximate)
Last-Last (approximate)
First-First
246
Robert Frost 247
Bob Evans 248
Evan Tayler Jones 249
James Cameron 250
Cam Newton 251
Cameron Diaz 252
Huey Newton 253
Huey Lewis 254
John Lewis 255
Jenny Lewis 256
Ryan Lewis 257
Burt Reynolds 258
Alistiar Cooke 259
Alistair Cookie A parody of Alistair Cooke "played" by Cookie Monster in the Sesame Street sketch "Monsterpiece Theatre" in the 1980s, a parody of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre". James Cook
Alastair Reynolds
Last-Last (approximate)
First-First (approximate)
260
Cokie Roberts 261
John Roberts 262
Robert Johnson 263
Robert E. Lee 264
Tommy Lee 265
Tommy Lee Jones 266
Etta James (2) 267
John Oliver 268
Ryan Reynolds 269
Alastair Reynolds 270

Transcript

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[This comic shows names overlayed onto black domino tiles, arranged so that each touching side corresponds with the first or last name of another person. Some of the domino tiles are rotated 90 degrees or are upside down.]
[The names include (sometimes repeated):]
Christian Campbell, Neve Campbell, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Smith, Etta James (2x (so far)), Joe McCarthy, Eugene McCarthy, Gene Vincent, Gene Kelly, John Kelly, Katherine Johnson, Kate Hudson, Rock Hudson, The Rock, Chris Rock, Chris Isaac, Isaac Newton, James Newton Howard, James Brown, Gordon Brown, Jon Brown, John Wayne, John Howard, Howard Stern, Howard Hunt, Helen Hunt, Helen Hughes, Chris Hughes, Chris Columbus, Christopher Columbus, Columbo, Helen Thomas, Tom Hanks, Hank Aaron, Aaron Carter, Hank Williams, Robin Williams, Billy D. Williams, William C. Williams, Robin Wright, Will Wright, Wilbur Wright, Tom Brady, Wayne Brady, Wayne Knight, Wayne Newton, Wayne Howard, Isaac Hayes, Oscar Isaac, Oscar the Grouch, Oscar de la Hoya, Oscar de la Renta, Lyndon Johnson, Drake, Frank Drake, Lisa Frank, Francis Drake, Frank Vincent, Francis Bacon, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Costner, Kevin Love, Kevin Smith, Kevin Kline, Naomi Klein, Naomi Watts, James Watt (Steam), James Watt (Interior), Stephen James, Steve Harvey, Domino Harvey, Harvey Milk, Will Smith, Kein James, James Saint James, James Garfield, Garfield, Etta James, Jimmy Buffett, Warren Buffett, Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Warren, Earl Warren, Eliabeth Kolbert, Stephen Colbert, James Earl Jones, James Earl Ray, Man Ray, Ray Parker Jr., Rachel Ray, Ray Charles, Charles Manson, Charlie Parker, Charles Wallace, Wallace Shawn, Sean Hayes, George Wallace, Marilyn Manson, Marilyn Monroe, James Monroe, James Brady,


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Discussion

This comic is a long list of names overlayed onto black domino tiles, arranged so that each touching side corresponds with the first or last name of another person. This will be difficult to transcribe. 108.162.221.53 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Would it be possible to use a fixed width format and try and transcribe like an actual scrabble board? I think there are unicode characters for upside-down and rotated text that we could use for the flipped names. But yes, definitely will be difficult.172.68.211.244 18:21, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
The transcript doesn't need upside-down and rotated text. It should be enough to mention that some tiles are. A first draft with all names would be good, but even mentioning all the connections would be to complex to read. Think about the reader... --Dgbrt (talk) 18:39, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
How about using a fixed-width font and then representing each domino with an alphanumeric character, and then put a list below of what each character corresponds to? Even though there are more dominoes than characters, duplicate uses of a character (but referring to different names) can be easily disambiguated if we assign each character in order, left to right and top to bottom. 172.69.70.71 20:04, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
I have made an image where each tile is numbered from left to right. See this picture and Explanation here. I have created a transcript from this list. And the table --Kynde (talk) 14:01, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
Do you think that maybe Randall created this comic just to screw with this wiki? 108.162.221.53 14:51, 22 March 2018 (UTC)Martin
Certainly, a real explanation to Randall's Name Dominoes doesn't need a numbered list or one of these overwhelming tables. A short overview (a small bullet list would be the best) to the rules implied by the image and shown in the title text would be a proper explanation. Everything else is trivia at maximum. And I can't resist: This table, whenever it will be completely filled, tops them all...--Dgbrt (talk) 21:30, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
The purpose of the transcript is so someone can search the site for a phrase (or in this case, a name) used in a strip, and find the page for it. Encode the words using upside-down UNICODE letters would defeat that purpose. JamesCurran (talk) 22:12, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

I see alternative names or nicknames sometimes matches together. But is the Chris Pratt/Chris Evans match with Topher Grace a bit of a stretch? I see that Topher is a variation of Christopher and Chis is a shortening of the same. But I guess it must be an acceptable move if Randle put it in the comic. Maybe it’s worth special points or something. 162.158.38.70 18:14, 21 March 2018 (UTC)TheStewart

Walter White/Walt Whitman is a reference to Breaking Bad. 172.68.58.101 18:20, 21 March 2018 (UTC)Pat

And Garnet being used to join Ruby and Saffire is clever... 141.101.98.64 18:23, 21 March 2018 (UTC) This is a reference to Steven Universe where there is a character, Garnet, who is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire.

"The title text spells out a rule that a player may only place a tile if they know who that person is" is mention as a reason for it not to be a fixed set of dominos, But I took it to mean you can't use "Jim Jones" unless you know of Jim Jones; as in, I could challenge your use of it by asking "okay who is he?". Maybe saying "oh, he went to school with me" or something wouldn't count, anymore than "crft is too a word!" works in Scrabble Afbach (talk) 19:36, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Harrison Ford is from Blade Runner I believe. 162.158.2.124 23:07, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Ma Bell is interesting... is it the only one that not an actual person? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System

Alistair Cooke's name is misspelt "Alistiar"; it'll be interesting to see if this gets corrected (as errors sometimes do). Not to be confused with Alistair Cookie, a short distance away! -- Peregrine (talk) 08:45, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

I think maybe Chris Isaac (Canadian football quarterback) was intended to be Chris Isaak (American rock musician, singer, and actor). Can we just assume that was a mistake? Imperpay (talk) 14:29, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Maybe a table?

I think a table would be a useful and user-friendly way of capturing everything that's going on here. Forgive this feeble attempt. I am not an html coder. I know enough to go steal something somewhere and see if it works:

Domino Notability Connections Mode
Alistair Cookie A parody of Alistair Cooke "played" by Cookie Monster in the Sesame Street sketch "Monsterpiece Theatre" in the 1980s, a parody of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre". James Cook

Alastair Reynolds

Last-Last (approximate)

First-First (approximate)

James Cook 18th century British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Alistair Cooke

Cokie Roberts
Alistair Cookie
James Fenimore Cooper

Last-Last (approximate)

Last-First (approximate)
Last-Last (approximate)
First-First

Chris Columbus Film director and screenwriter. Columbo

Christopher Columbus
Chris Hughes

Last-Only (approximate)

First-First (approximate) and Last-Last
First-First

Imperpay (talk) 23:27, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

I like that idea. Especially because it would mean that all those links are removed from the transcript. As far as I understand transcripts (at least in this wiki) they don't inlcude any meta information (e.g. nothing that is not shown in the comic). Elektrizikekswerk (talk) 08:48, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
Yes great example of a table, and yes no wiki links in transcript. I will put this in the explanation now. --Kynde (talk) 09:42, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
I have now made an image where each tile is numbered from left to right. See this picture and Explanation here. I have created a transcript from this list. And the table --Kynde (talk) 14:01, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
Great job, thanks for the effort :) Should the table be moved to a separate page? Beacuse it's really massive... And another thing: I think the name list in the transcript as it was before (excluding links, of course) was better. At least for someone who is not visually impaired Elektrizikekswerk (talk) 14:52, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

And I thought Alistair Cookie was a reference to the fact Alistair Cook is batting like a muppet. BTW I have WG Grace and Grace Darling in my hand - but i cannot seem to fit them in. 141.101.107.204 17:16, 22 March 2018 (UT

I've created a table/spreadsheet of all the numbers, with a,b,c meaning first, second, and third part of name, respectively, here. Also, Van Jones is missing in both the numbered image and all text on this page. Ad1217 (talk) 04:40, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks for pointing out that I failed to number the tile after 249. I'm now correcting the image adding this as number 250 and correcting the numbers after that. Ad1217 could you update your spreadsheet, and would it be OK to add a picture of this to the explanation? (I spotted an error in your spreadsheet as well, as you have used 286b rather than 268b at the bottom, but correctly used 268a --Kynde (talk) 09:55, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Feel free to use it however you like! Also, it's publicly editable, so feel free to fix any other issues. My plan is to write a script to map names->boxes, then ideally make an html table with text transformed correctly, but it could take a bit of time before I get that working right. Ad1217 (talk) 08:24, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Does anyone else see the connection between "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" and the fact that this picture is basically a network/graph? 108.162.249.136 05:25, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

I was disappointed that Kevin Bacon isn't a clear node of some sort. The joke could have been extended by adding a Paul Erdős tile. --Quantum7 (talk) 08:41, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

I wonder if Randall used an algorithm to build this. It would be interesting to generate dense domino packings automatically. Does he have an official github account or similar? --Quantum7 (talk) 08:42, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

I'll continue looking into it, and thought it might be worth mentioning. Could this be some kind of QR code?

Would it be helpful to fill in still-missing entries of the Notability column of the Table of Names. I can volunteer to do that. These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For (talk) 10:49, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Looking at some of the missing entries in the Notability column for common names (eg. John Lewis, Chris Evans) and wondering what the best approach to this is. To me as a British person, John Lewis is a department store and Chris Evans is a radio presenter and former Top Gear host, however I realise this is not the case everywhere - Chris Evans is also an actor who featured in the Marvel films (probably more likely who Randell was referring to). Would it be best to list all notable people with that name (how do we decide who is notable enough?...) or should we just link the Wikipedia entry for people with that name? AlChemist (talk) 10:49, 3 March 2019 (UTC)


Other languages

Can "Name Dominoes" grids written in another non-English alphabet be assembled? ColorfulGalaxy (talk) 08:36, 13 December 2022 (UTC)