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Shanghai Rummy is played with multiple decks of 54 standard playing cards, including the Jokers. Two decks are required for a game of up to four players. Five or six players require three decks. Aces are high (above a King) or low, (below 2). Each game has ten hands, and the rules for each hand are unique.
Rummy is a group of games related by the feature of matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build melds which can be either sets (three or four of a kind of the same rank) or runs (three or more sequential cards of the same suit) and either be first to go out or to amass more points than the opposition.
Contract rummy is a Rummy card game, based on gin rummy played by 3 to 8 players. [1] It appeared in the United States during the Second World War . [ 2 ] The game is also known as Combination rummy , Deuces Wild Rummy and Joker rummy , and a proprietary version of the game called Phase 10 was published in 1982.
Edmond Hoyle (1672 – 29 August 1769) was an English writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games.The phrase "according to Hoyle" (meaning "strictly according to the rules") came into the language as a reflection of his broadly perceived authority on the subject; use of the phrase has since expanded to any appeal to a putative authority.
Gin rummy. Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game variant of rummy. It has enjoyed widespread popularity as both a social and a gambling game, especially during the mid twentieth century, and remains today one of the most widely played two-player card games.
Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 3 was the third volume in Sierra On-Line's series of computer games based on the officially licensed Hoyle rules and trademark. Unlike the two previous games, this one was made with Sierra's new improved VGA engine, and focused on board games , where the previous entries in the series had featured card games .
500 rum, also called pinochle rummy, Michigan rummy, Persian rummy, rummy 500 or 500 rummy, is a popular variant of rummy. [1] The game of canasta and several other games are believed to have developed from this popular form of rummy.
Thirty-one (card game) A blitz hand of three same-suit cards scoring 31, which immediately ends the game in victory when attained by a player. (The ace scores 11 and the two court cards each score 10.) Thirty-one or Trente et un is a gambling card game played by two to seven people, where players attempt to assemble a hand which totals 31.