Playing pieces in Rummikub

Usage examples of tiles.

Alaena took the wooden box from Rhodry and emptied out a set of little ivory tiles, painted with flowers and birds among other designs.

Malina began picking out tiles, one at a time, and placing them, still face down, in a star-shaped pattern.

The only evidence for his certainty was the Wildfolk, settling down on the floor and unoccupied cushions to watch as Alaena leaned forward and turned the first three tiles face up to reveal a sword between two flowers.

She took a thoughtful bite while she studied the tiles, then turned, motioned to Rhodry, and held the sweetmeat out to him like a treat for a dog.

Dressed in a simple white tunic, she was sitting cross-legged on a cushion at the low table and frowning at her fortune-telling tiles when he came in.

After the mix he picked twenty-one of the ninety-six tiles at random, then laid them out in a star-shaped pattern.

She looked down at the tiles and frowned, then swept her hand through the pattern.

When he tried to turn the whole thing into a joke and tease her about it, she refused to answer, merely walked away fast with her nose in the air, making him wonder if all those love-affairs that had appeared in the tiles were doomed to remain in the past.

Although all the women in her set dabbled in astrology, the tiles, and other forms of divination, only she had any talent for it.

Since these affairs were their chief entertainment, they would crouch for hours over the tiles as Alaena studied them for omens of romance.

After Alaena picked her tiles, the older woman frowned at them for a long time, then began saying a few chopped phrases, obviously memorized whole by rote.

Alaena dumped the tiles out of the box and began mixing them in a well-practised thunder.

She also noticed that Salamander was watching the lady with a warm sort of appraisal of his own, approving of more than her hands as she laid out a selection of tiles in a star-shaped pattern.

The friend travels for the winter, far away it seems, although the tiles cannot tell me where.

That came straight from the tiles, practically off the little scroll of meanings you get when you buy a box.