How To Play Traditional Rummy

Each player will start his turn with drawing a card from the main deck pile or from the discard pile. Now the online player can build a meld on the table or build his cards on an existing one. The main object is to meld all your cards into sets and runs.

A Set is a group of three cards or four, with the same value and different suits. 7-7-7, Q-Q-Q or Ace- Ace- Ace. A run is group of three cards or more, all sequence to each other. The Ace card can be used as high card or low card.

You can meld your Run like A-2-3 hearts, and Q-K-A diamond. After melding your cards, you must remember to discard the last card into the discards pile.

Remember, you can lay your cards on the table and add more cards to existing Sets and Runs during the game.

How to win Traditional Rummy game?

You have two ways to do that. You have two ways of doing that:

The first and the most common way of winning the Traditional Rummy game is to go out. The first online player to get rid of all his cards is the Traditional Rummy round winner. You can do that by discarding all your cards, or by building existing melds on the table. As soon as you have no cards left, you went out and the normal score is calculated into your real money account and to your opponents'.

The second way of winning the traditional Rummy game is to go Rummy. If you went out with all your cards in one turn only, you have gone Gin, and you are the Traditional Rummy winner. The score calculation is basically the same way as if you won the traditional Rummy by going out, plus 25 penalty points for each remaining online player.

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