Rummy is one of the most widespread card games played in India. What
makes rummy an outstanding game is its interesting game play. Indian
Rummy rules are pretty simple to learn. The
essential rule of the game is to get rid of the hand cards by melding them into
proper sets & sequences. The player who first completes this task wins the
game. The game requires a lot of memory skills to remember the fall of cards
and complete focus and involvement. Perhaps, this is the reason why the game
has such a huge following in India.
Indian Rummy Rules
The objective of the game is to meld the 13 cards into proper sets and
sequences with at least 2 sequences out of which one must be a pure sequence.
The basic idea of the game is to improve your hand by way of growing
sets and sequences. The game is commonly played between 2 to 6 players;
normally in a game involving more than 2 players, two standard 52-card decks
and 4 joker cards are used. The playing cards are shuffled together and dealt
with the players. After 13 playing cards are dealt with each participant the
remaining cards are placed face down to make the ‘Closed Deck’ and the top card
is placed on the desk face up making it the ‘Open Deck’. A card is randomly
chosen from the ‘closed deck’ which acts a joker (Eg: If 6 of spades is
selected as a joker, all the cards with the rank ‘6’ will act as a joker
irrespective of the suit).
Terminologies
Set
In rummy, you form a set when you meld 3 or four cards of the same rank
in distinct suits (Eg: ♠8, ♥8, ♣8 is a proper set because the rank of the three
cards are the same and the suits are different. A player can use the joker card
as a substitute to complete a set.
Sequence
Also called as run, a Sequence is a series of three or more consecutive
cards of the same suit. (Eg: ♠3 ♠4 ♠5♠6 or is an example of a sequence). There
must be at least one pure sequence to win the game. The sequences that are made
without a substitution of Joker card are referred to as a pure sequence.
Jokers
A joker is used as a substitute card to make up for the missing card in
a set or a sequence. 2 joker cards come along with the standard 52 card deck.
In addition, a random card is chosen which acts as the wild card. Players can
use this wild card in place of a missing card while forming a set, and/or a
sequence.
All printed Jokers that come along with the deck and an arbitrarily
chosen wild card can be used as Joker in rummy.
In order to make melds, you must pick up a card from the Open or closed
deck, make your melds, and then discard one card into the open deck.
Learn Indian Rummy rules thoroughly and can start playing in our
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