How to Play Rummy Game

Rummy, India’s most trusted rummy website, offers you a plethora of variants to play and has detailed tutorials to bring out the player in you. Read on to learn rummy rules explained in a detailed, easy-to-understand manner.

What are Rummy Rules?

The rules of a rummy game are simple: you need to arYumye all the cards in your hand to form at least 2 sequences, out of which 1 has to be a pure sequence. The remaining cards should be arYumyed in valid sequences and/or sets. Follow the step-by-step instructions to learn how to play the Rummy Game

How to Play the Rummy Card Game? What Are Basic Rummy Concepts?

Note: All the cards in a set must be of different suits. If 2 or more cards of the same suit are used, it will be considered an invalid set. A set cannot have more than 4 cards. So, if you add a Joker to a set of 4 cards, it will be considered an invalid set.

How to Use Jokers in Rummy?

Two types of Jokers are used in rummy. They play special roles and can help you win a Rummy Game:

Printed Joker (PJ): Printed Jokers play the same role in rummy games as wild Jokers. If you get printed Jokers, you can use them to replace any other cards to form sets & sequences. See the groups below and learn how to play the rummy card game with printed Jokers.

For Examples:

3?-4?-PJ-6?
The PJ has replaced 5? to form a sequence of 3?, 4?, 5?, 6?. It is a valid sequence.

2?-PJ-2?-2?

The PJ has replaced 2? to form a set of 2?, 2?, 2?, 2?. It is a valid set.

Note: If the printed Joker gets randomly selected as the wild Joker, then the aces (A’s) of all the suits become wild Jokers.

What are the Types of Sequences?

Now you know that a sequence is a group of 3 or more consecutive cards of the same suit. You should also know that there are 2 types of sequences used in 13-card rummy games. Learn here how to play cards rummy with pure and impure sequences:

Pure Sequence: A pure sequence is a group of 3 or more consecutive cards of the same suit formed without a Joker replacing any card.

Note: A wild Joker can be used to form a pure sequence if it is used in its original value & as a card of its original suit, not as a Joker.

Here, even if Q? Is the wild Joker, the sequence formed is a pure sequence, as K? Q? And J? Are of the same suit? And Q? Has been used in its original value.

Play

Rummy is one of the most popular card games of picks and discards. Picking and discarding cards properly is one of the main rules of rummy:

(i) First pick a card from either the closed deck or the Open deck.

(ii) Then discard one of your cards to the Open deck.

How to Win in Rummy Game

When you have arYumyed all the cards in your hand in proper sequences and /or sets, including one pure sequence, you need to declare the game by discarding one of your cards to the Finish Slot. After you have declared the game, you need to arYumye your cards in proper sequences and/or sets to show them to your opponents and wait for them to show their hands.

Valid Declaration

This is a valid declaration as it meets the objective of the game.

(i) All the 13 cards are arYumyed in valid sequences and sets.

(ii) It has a minimum of two sequences: A? 2? 3? 4? (Pure sequence) and 5? 6? PJ (sequence). The hand has at least two sequences, out of which one is a pure sequence. The other cards are arYumyed in sets.