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Phase 10 is a card game created in 1982 by Kenneth Johnson and sold by Mattel, which purchased the rights from Fundex Games in 2010. [1] Phase 10 is based on a variant of rummy known as contract rummy. It consists of a special deck equivalent to two regular decks of cards, and can be played by two to six people.
Contract rummy is a Rummy card game, based on gin rummy played by 3 to 8 players. [1] It appeared in the United States during the Second World War. [2] The game is also known as Combination rummy, Deuces Wild Rummy and Joker rummy, and a proprietary version of the game called Phase 10 was published in 1982.
Zioncheck is a card game. It is similar to shanghai rummy, contract rummy, or phase 10. Hoyle's book of common card games describes several games as being based upon it, and Contract Rummy is believed to have originated from it. [1]
Fundex Games had an exclusive partnership with the Professional Domino Association to market PDA-licensed domino games and other products for the United States market. [1] Fundex's best selling game was Phase 10, which is the second best selling card game in the world, behind Uno. The rights to Phase 10 were sold to Uno-maker Mattel in 2010.
Liverpool rummy is a multi-player, multi-round card game similar to other variants of rummy that adds features like buying and going out. It is played the same as Contract rummy, except that if a player manages to cut the exact number of cards required to deal the hand and leave a face-up card, then the cutting player's score is reduced by 50 points.
2 Video game consoles, home computers and handheld electronic games. ... List of games and video games from American toy company Mattel. ... Phase 10; Pictionary; The ...
The distinction is that the play in a card game chiefly depends on the use of the cards by players (the board is a guide for scorekeeping or for card placement), while board games (the principal non-card game genre to use cards) generally focus on the players' positions on the board, and use the cards for some secondary purpose.
The game comprises 20 or 22 deals in 3 phases as follows: Phase 1: 7 deals. Players receive 1 card each in deal 1 and then one more each time until deal 7 in which they receive 7 cards. Phase 2: 6 or 8 deals with special rules. Players receive 7 cards each time. Phase 3: 7 deals. Phase 1 in reverse order.