Players: 2 - 6
Summary
- Players lay down melds (sets and runs) of cards from their hand onto the table
- Players can also lay off (add) cards to existing runs or sets
- At the start of their turn, players may draw a card or take the top card from the discard pile.
- At the end of their turn, players must discard a card from their hand
- The round ends when one player has laid down all of their hand. Scores are based on the cards remaining in hand at the end of the round
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The Deck and Dealing
Rummy uses a standard deck. Each player is dealt a hand of 7 cards. The rest are placed in the draw pile face down.
Play
To begin play, a card is played from the draw pile face up. On their turn, each player may either pick up the last card played face up on the table or draw a card from the draw pile. If the draw pile is exhausted, the discarded cards are used to make a fresh draw pile.
They may then choose to ‘lay down’ cards from their hand, as parts of melds. There are two types of meld:
A set is a group of 3 or 4 cards of the same value.
A run is a group of at least 3 consecutive cards of the same suit.
Players may also add cards to existing sets and runs. This is called laying off.
At the end of their turn, they must discard one card from their hand onto the table.
Play continues until one player has gotten rid of their whole hand. Points are calculated and if no one has reached the target points for the game, another round begins.
Scoring
Whoever gets rid of their cards first scores points equal to the sum of the values of the cards remaining in their opponents’ hands.
Face cards are worth 10 points, Aces are worth 1 point and all other cards are worth their number values.
Winning the Game
Whoever scores a set number of points first wins. The options are 200, 300, 400 and 500 points.
Variations
Points Strategy
Three scoring systems are available:
- Positive - Whoever gets rid of their cards first scores points equal to the sum of the values of the cards remaining in their opponents’ hands.
- Negative - Players incur penalty points based on the cards remaining in their hands
- Both - The value of the cards in hand is subtracted from each losing player’s score and the sum of those points is added to the winning player’s score
Ace
Aces can be low, high, low or high, or around the corner (making the suit circular).
Five points under Ten
Cards under Ten are all worth 5 points.
Multiple Melds
Players can lay down multiple melds in one turn.
Meld before lay-off
Players must have laid down a set or run before they can lay off cards.
Going Rummy
The bonus for melding all cards in one turn can be set to double, triple, or disabled entirely.
Reuse
The number of times the discard pile can be reused to refresh the draw pile can be set to 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, or disabled entirely.
Shuffle
The discard pile is shuffled before refreshing the draw pile.
Jokers
The decks can contain 2 or 4 Jokers, or Jokers can be disabled.
Card Game Basics
A deck of cards consists of 52 cards, with 4 distinctive subgroups. Each of these subgroups is recognised by a symbol and are referred to as suits. They consist of Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds. Each suit contains 13 cards which, generally, are considered in this order, Ace (A), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jacks (J), Queen (Q) and King (K).
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