🃏 Rummy

How to play

Rummy against the CPU with a single pack. You each start with seven cards, one card starts the discard pile and the rest is the stock. A turn has three parts: draw one card, lay down any melds you can, and discard one card. A meld is three or more cards of the same rank, or three or more of the same suit in consecutive order. The first player to shed every card wins.

• Click the face-down stock — draws the top card and moves you into the play phase.
• Click the discard pile — takes its top card instead.
• Click a card in your hand — selects or deselects it. Any number can be selected at once.
• Meld Selected button — lays down the selection if it forms a valid meld. An invalid group is rejected and nothing is lost.
• Discard Selected button — discards the single selected card and ends your turn.
• New Game button — reshuffles and deals seven cards each.

Scoring

There is no point score. The counters show each hand size, the cards left in the deck, and a Melds figure that counts every meld laid down by either player. A run must be in one suit with no gaps, and Aces are low here, so A-2-3 is valid and Q-K-A is not. Sets ignore suit. You win by emptying your hand, whether by melding or by discarding the last card.

Tips

• Meld before you discard. Several melds can be laid in one turn, and anything left in hand at the end is a card you failed to shed.
• Take from the discard pile only when the card completes a meld or leaves you one away; otherwise the stock tells the CPU nothing.
• Watch what the CPU discards — it throws at random, so the pile is a fair sample of what it holds.
• Seven cards support at most two potential melds, so commit to those and discard everything else.

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