🃏 Gin Rummy
The two-player classic, head to head. Build sets and runs, drive your deadwood down to 10 or less and knock — or hold out for gin and the 25-point bonus. Careful: knock into a lower hand and you're undercut. First to 100 takes the match.
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How to play — the exact rules at this table
- The table: two seats — you and Bea 🦉. Ten cards each from a standard 52-card deck. Card points: Ace = 1, 2–10 = face value, J/Q/K = 10. The winner of each hand deals the next one; Bea deals the first hand. The match is a race to 100 points.
- Melds and deadwood: a meld is a set of 3–4 cards of one rank, or a run of 3+ cards of one suit in sequence. Aces are low only (A-2-3 is a run; Q-K-A is not). Cards that fit no meld are deadwood, and your deadwood is always counted at the best possible arrangement of your hand — the gold-banded cards in your fan are the ones currently melded. You never lay melds down during play; they only count when a hand ends.
- The upcard offer: the dealer turns one card up to start the discard pile. The non-dealer may take it or pass; then the dealer may take it or pass. If both pass, the non-dealer draws first and play begins.
- Your turn: draw one card — the top of the stock or the face-up top of the discard pile — then end your turn by discarding one card face-up. You may not discard the card you just took from the discard pile this turn (a stock draw can always be discarded).
- Knocking: after you draw, if discarding a card would leave you with deadwood of 10 or less, you may knock instead of discarding plainly: tap the card you want to throw, then tap 🔔 Knock. The hand ends and both hands are scored.
- Gin: if that discard leaves you with zero deadwood, that's gin — tap 🌟 Gin! You score a 25-point bonus plus all of the defender's deadwood, and the defender may not lay off. Big Gin: if all 11 cards in your hand form melds before you discard, you may declare Big Gin instead — a 31-point bonus plus the defender's deadwood, again with no layoff.
- Laying off: against a knock (never against gin), the defender first lays off any deadwood cards that extend the knocker's melds — a card of the knocker's set rank, or a card continuing one of their runs at either end, chaining if a laid-off card opens the next spot. Only what remains counts as the defender's deadwood.
- Scoring the hand: if the defender's deadwood (after laying off) is higher than the knocker's, the knocker scores the difference. If it ties or is lower, the knocker is undercut: the defender scores the difference plus a 10-point undercut bonus. Against gin there is no undercut — gin always wins its hand.
- Out of stock: if a plain discard leaves only 2 cards in the stock and nobody has knocked, the hand is a draw — no points, and the same dealer deals again.
- The match: first to 100 hand points wins. The traditional settlement is shown at match end for the record: the winner adds a 100-point game bonus plus the final margin, and the whole tally is doubled on a shutout (loser still at 0). 💡 Tap the hint button any time for a suggested play. Sound is off by default — tap 🔊 to enable.
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