Gin Rummy

Gin Rummy Rules

Gin Rummy is a two player card game, the game begins by each player being dealt ten cards each from a single 52 card deck of playing cards. The object of Gin Rummy is to arrange your 10 cards into sets or melds as quickly as possible so that you can end the hand (also known as knocking) before your opponent does.

After the players receive their 10 cards each, the remaining 32 cards are placed face-down between the gin rummy players, this pile of cards is known as the 'stock pile'. At the start of play, the top card from the stock pile is turned face-up and becomes a second pile which is known as the 'open pile'. Players take turns to pickup a card from either pile and then discard from their hand to the face up open pile.

A turn consists of taking a card from either the stock pile or the open pile, adding it to your hand and then discarding a card to the open pile. However if you take a card from the open pile you may not discard it again straight away (until your next turn).

At the start of the game the first player must take a card from the open pile, if they choose not to take this card they can pass and offer it to their opponent however if their opponent doesn't want the card either they can pass their turn and from then on play continues as above where the player can take from the stock pile.

If a hand takes a great amount of time to complete, the stock pile may run out of cards, if this happens the hand is abandoned, the cards are shuffled and dealt again.

How Do You Win? Ending the game at the earliest opportunity doesn’t guarantee success. If you knock and your opponent has a better hand, you will lose that game.

Only knocking with a perfect hand (ie. no “deadwood”), called a “gin”, guarantees success. Here’s an example of a perfect hand:

2♠ 2♣ 2♥ 4♥ 5♥ 6♥ 7♥ 8♥ 9♥ 10♥

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