Unless mutually agreed otherwise, cards in the discard pile should be One card face-up on top of the discard pile. Wants to or can, he goes out (thereby ending the hand). This may either be the top card of the discard pile, or the top card from the draw pile. The remaining face-down cards become the drawĬard into his hand. Turn one card face-up to start theĭiscard pile. Sequence of 3 or more cards in the same suitĭeal each player 10 cards each. The goal for Game is to be the first player to 100 points across Turn-up card, and also less than the value of your opponent’s The value of those left is less than or equal to the value of the The goal in a Hand is to be first to meld all the cards in your This is a game with a 52-card deck for two players. We wrap up with Colonel, a variant of Gin Rummy in which players lay non-scoring melds to the table. Next come the rules to the high-end Skarney Gin. Then we give rules to a simple variant called Sequence Gin. Somehow the game had survived or resurfaced after two decades! Ginīecame a fad in the early 1940s, probably because film starsįirst we’ll summarize the rules for standard Gin Rummy, aka Oklahoma To find the game being played at New York clubs in the 1930s. Rummy combined with genuine strategic depth. This is an archive copy of a page from the former website, with thanks to Howard Fosdick for permission to republish it here.