The island way
Cut-throat, every player for themselves. Pose, knock, block, count — round by round until a champion is crowned. If you learned at a verandah table, you already know the rules.
Island Slam · Out now on iOS and Android
Real Caribbean dominoes, in your pocket.
Cut-throat rules, a smart AI that doesn't fold, and live tables from Bridgetown to Brooklyn. Island Slam is the first game from Aluwi, a digital studio in Barbados building for how the Caribbean actually lives and plays. Free to play on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Free to play · Contains ads · Optional ad-free subscription
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Why it feels like home
Built on the real game — not a watered-down one.
Smart AI, anywhere
A full match offline against an opponent that counts tiles and reads the board. Easy, Medium or Hard — no internet, no waiting.
Live tables
Jump into a ranked match or make a private room and share the code with your people. Four seats, real players, trash talk included.
Represent your island
Pick your flag, pick your character, show your colours at the table. A Caribbean soundtrack plays while you do it.
Weekly leaderboard
Climb the rankings, defend your spot, and track your rounds and wins. Bronze to Slam Master — earn it.
Life happens
Resume mid-match when you get pulled away. A built-in rules guide for anyone new to the table. Confetti when you win big.
A look at the table
From the home screen to the slam.
Cut-throat in five lines
How the table plays.
Deal
Seven tiles each from a double-six set. No boneyard — all 28 are dealt.
Pose
Double-six opens the first round. The winner of each round poses to start the next.
Play
Match an open end of the chain. Play moves counter-clockwise, no partners.
Knock
No legal play? You knock and pass. Four knocks in a row blocks the round.
Score
Domino out to win the round. Blocked? Lowest pip count takes it — if they've already won a round. Otherwise, scratch and re-deal.
iPhone, iPad & Android
Pull up a chair — it's free.
Island Slam is live on the App Store and Google Play. Download it, pick your island, and take the table.
The studio
Ship less. Ship better.
Aluwi (say it All-uh-wee, from all uh we) is an independent studio in Barbados. We make games and tools rooted in Caribbean culture, built for the region first and crafted with AI in the open. Island Slam is the first of a short, honest slate.
Island Slam
Dominoes the way the Caribbean actually plays it — cut-throat, the slam, the talk around the table.
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