Gin Rummy is the most popular 2-player card game of skill in English speaking countries. Do you know that even the current US president plays Gin Rummy with his aides and adisors? At GameColony.com, online gin is played by two players with a standard 52-card
pack. Players can select the maximum points for a game (from 50 to 300). In a standard 100
points game, the winner will be the 1-st player who reaches 100 points which may take
several deals.
Cards rank A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K where ace ‘A’ costs 1 point, subsequent
cards cost their nominal value up to 10, however Jack, Queen, King cost also 10 points
each.
The object in gin rummy game is to collect sets of 3 or more cards that ‘go
together’, either being of the same rank, like all sevens, or forming a sequence of
the same suit – like 7,8,9 of hearts. Such matching collections of cards are called
melds.
At the end, whatever cards are left in player’s hand that are NOT in melds, are
called 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 collect
cards that would form melds.
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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 (close
d).
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. |
