Gin Rummy
Gin Rummy Rules and Basics
Gin Rummy is a fun and modern version of the famous 'draw and discard' card game of the ‘Rummy’ family games. Use your best strategy to form 'Melds', have as little ‘Deadwood’ as possible, and 'Knock' before your opponent does! Play Gin Rummy card game for free in your desktop or mobile browser.
Gin Rummy is the most popular 2-player card game of skill in English speaking countries. Do you know that even the former US president plays Gin Rummy with his aides and adisors? At GameColony.com, online gin is played by two players with a standard 52-cardpack. Players can select the maximum points for a game (from 50 to 300). In a standard 100point game, the winner will be the 1-st player who reaches 100 points which may takeseveral deals.
Cards rank A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K where ace ‘A’ costs 1 point, subsequentcards cost their nominal value up to 10, however Jack, Queen, King cost also 10 pointseach.
How To Play Gin Rummy
The object in gin rummy game is to collect sets of 3 or more cards that ‘gotogether’. Such matching collections of cards are calledmelds.The melds either have to be of the same rank, like all sevens, or forming a sequence ofthe same suit – like 7,8,9 of hearts.
At the end, whatever cards are left in player’s hand that are NOT in melds, arecalled deadwood. Deadwood incurs penalties equivalent to the sum of their values. In the course of the game, players would try to discard unwanted cards and collectcards that would form melds.
Gin Rummy Rules
| Example In the example on the left, the player's own cards are on the bottom (they are open) & the opponent's cards are on top (closed). The up card (10 of Diamonds) is visible to both players. The deck has 30 cards left in it (indicated by number 30). It is the turn of the 'bottom' player whose cards are visible to make a discard (there are 11 cards in hand). The player is about to make a discard by dragging one of the cards from hand to cover the up card (10 of Diamonds). The player whose cards are visible has 1 meld in hand (3 Kings). The rest of the hand is deadwood. The current value of the deadwood in points (before the discard) is: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 8 + 9 = 38 points. |