Easy Rummy

1. Easy Rummy Card Games For Kids
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Want to play Rummy but can’t find fellow players? Just play by yourself, or rather: Play with Rummy fans all over the world, easy and comfortably online! This virtual world of Rummy is the perfect supplement to your living room table to gather around with family and friends. Draw one card, either from the top of the draw pile or the top of the discard pile. The player may (but does not have to) play a meld of cards (see 'Meld of Cards' below) or add to another player's meld (see 'Laying Off' below). The player must discard one card, adding it (face up) to the top of the discard pile. The real rum runner recipe straight from the source in the Florida Keys, where it was originally concocted in the 50s.

General Rules of Rummy Games

The following basic rules are common, to one degree or another, to all rummy games and variations.Each individual game has it's own specific rules, of course, but once these general rules are understood,players will find it easy to learn any variant of the basic game.

You may also want to check out our Rummy Glossary to bone up on Rummy lingo and slang.

Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that it is so simple. Any person with a knowledge of the basic game can easily learn any form of it.

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Rotation - Both the deal and the gameplay pass clockwise (to the left) from player to player. The first turn of play is given to the player at the dealer's left, followed by the player at his left, and so on.

Shuffling and Cutting the Deck - Any player may shuffle the deck, but it is the dealer's obligation to shuffle last.The shuffled deck is then presented to the player at the dealer's right for cutting. If that player chooses to cut the deck,he must cut at least four cards from the top of the deck, and place them on the table, leaving at least four cards remainingin the original stack. The dealer then closes the cut by adding the remnants of the original stack to the cut portion.

Dealing - The dealer distributes the cards, one at a time, face down, beginning with the player onhis left, and ending with himself, clockwise around the table.

The Stock - After the deal is complete, the remainder of the deck is placed face down in the center of the table, within reach of all players. This forms the stock.

The Upcard - Before play begins, the dealer turns over the top card of the stock and places it face up on the table next to the stock. This is the upcard.

Play - The player on the dealer's left has the first turn. Each player's turn must begin witha draw and end with a discard. A player may draw a single card from either the top fo the discard pile, or from thetop of the stock.

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Additional Information

Rummy Rules

Rummy is a classic cardgame where the objective is to be the first to get rid of all your cards, by creating melds, which can either be sets, three or four cards of the same rank, e.g. H8 S8 D8, or runs, which are three or more cards of the same suit in a sequence, e.g. H1 H2 H3. Aces are low, and sequences can not wrap around. There are many, many variations of Rummy that exist, this particular implementation is Basic Rummy, or Traditional Rummy.

Gameplay

The game can have 2,3 or 4 players. If there are only two players they each get 10 cards, if there are three or four player then each player gets 7 cards. After the cards are dealt the deck is put facedown on the table, and one card face up next to it, to start the discard pile. The player to the left of the dealer starts the hand, and gameplay goes as follows:

1. Start your turn by drawing card from either the deck or the discard pile.
2. If possible, lay down a meld on the table. You are allowed to put down many melds in each round (in some versions only one meld per turn is allowed).
3. Lay off cards on existing melds. For example if there's H5 H6 H7 on the table, and you have the H8 you may lay it off on the meld. Who put the meld down in the first place doesn't matter, as soon as a meld is on the table it doesn't belong to anyone anymore, anyone can use it. You are allowed to lay off as many cards as you want, and you may always lay off, also when you haven't put down a meld in the round.
4. End your turn by discarding one card onto the discard pile. If you drew from the discard pile you can not discard that card in the same round. If you only have one card left to discard you put it face down on the discard pile and win the game.

The game continues like this until one player has finished all the cards from their hand. A player is not required to end the game by discarding a card onto the discard pile, if he can lay down all his cards in melds, or lay them off on existing melds the may do so, and will win the game.

If the deck is depleted before a player has won, then the discard pile is shuffled and used as a new deck. If the deck is depleted for a second time then the hand is considered a stalemate and finishes with no one getting any points.

Scoring

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The scoring in Rummy is winner-takes-all. When a player has won a round, the cards his opponents still have in their hands are counted and the winner gets points based on them. Face cards are worth 10 points each, aces are 1 point, and other cards are worth their rank, e.g. an 8 is worth 8 points. The points for all the losers are added together and given to the winner. (In some variations each player gets his points as penalty points, but not in this version). The score needed to win the entire game varies based on how many players there are. For 2 players the score is 100 points, for 3 players it's 150 points and for four players the score is 200. When a player reaches the target score he has won the entire game. Since scoring is based on cards left in hand it makes sense to try to meld and lay off as early as possible.

Going Rummy (Rummy bonus)

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If a player has not melded or laid off any cards during the game, but can get rid of all his cards in one turn earns a bonus, his points are doubled! This is called Going Rummy, and is a risky move, since you have a lot of cards for a long time, but can really pay off if you manage to do it successfully!

Stalemate

There are two cases where the game can end in a stalemate. One, as mentioned above, is when the stock has been depleted twice. The other is when the game detects that none of the players will be able to finish their hands. This can for example happen when all players have only one card left, and there are no possible lay offs on the melds on the table. When there's a stalemate all players get 0 points, and the game is considered a loss for all of them in the statistics. The way people handle this in real life varies greatly, but I've chosen this simple method here to avoid complications around two or more players having the same number of points etc.