Playcard gamesRummy
Draw, meld sets and runs, discard. The family the rest grew out of.
- 2-6 players
- Standard deck
- Melding
What Rummy is
The root of a very large family. Draw a card, try to arrange your hand into sets and runs, discard a card. Everything else in the family is a variation on this.
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Open a table here and play Rummy in the browser — 2 to 6 at it, with friends on a shared code, or against bots when you are short of people.
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