About Rummy
Rummy is one of the best-loved family card games. On your turn, you draw a card from the stock or the discard pile, lay sets and runs down on the table, and finish by discarding a card. A set is three or four cards of the same value, and a run is at least three cards in a row in the same suit.
We use points like in 500 Rum: every card you lay down or lay off scores points, and the cards in your hand are subtracted when a player goes out. The game suggests sets and runs and has a little workspace, so it’s easy to get started.
Play with the TV as the table and the phones as your hands, or pass one iPad around the table. The first to 250 or 500 points wins.
How to play
- Draw a card from the stock or take the top card of the discard pile.
- Lay down sets (3–4 of a kind) and runs (3 or more in a row in the same suit).
- Lay off single cards on the sets and runs on the table – including the others’.
- Discard a card to end your turn. The first player with no cards left goes out.
- Points: ace 15, face cards and tens 10, the rest their value. Cards in your hand are subtracted.