Mummy’s Rummy

11/09/2007 by Alex.

When I wrote the title for this post I wasn’t thinking of the game you can buy in the shops but actually a version of rummi my mum taught us when we were kids. It was much like Gin Rummy but in my opinion a lot more fun!!

In my mummy’s version of rummy instead of putting the cards on top of eachother in the discard pile we would fan them out slightly horizontally, each time we laid one down so you could see all the discarded card. You could then pick up 1, 2, or as many cards as you liked in the “fan” however if you picked up more than one card the last card picked up would have to be immediately used as a meld.

By playing this version of rummy you could go out with a standard 3 and 4 card meld or if you have colleced cards loads of melds. The scorring would then be worked out as follows:

20pts - Going out first
5pt for all non picture and A cards laid out on the table in a meld
10pts for alll picture cards laid out on the table in a meld
15pts for all aces laid out on the table in a meld

In addition to the scoring above anyone with cards left in their hand needs these minused of their total score - these points are scored in the same way as they are added (see above.)

By scoring this way the person that went out first may not win because they have not formed enough melds to gain the points even with the 20pt bonus for going out first.

Give Mummy’s Rummy a go and let me know how you get on or if you have any questions.

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