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Rumino (also ramino or rumina) is a knock rummy card game of Italian origin for up to six people, in which players try to form sets or sequences of cards. It may possibly have been devised in America during the 1940s by Italian immigrants by adapting the game Scala Quaranta to Gin rummy.
Knock Rummy is a generic name for rummy games where players only reveal their hand at the end of the game. A related, two player, game is the popular Gin Rummy. [2] The following rules are therefore not to be regarded as binding in the sense of chess rules. Unless otherwise stated, the rules of the game are the same as those for German Rummy. [2]
Tonk, or tunk, [1] [2] is a matching card game, which combines features of knock rummy and conquian. [3] Tonk is a relatively fast-paced game that can be played by 2–4 players. It can be played for just points or for money wagered.
Rummy is a group of games related by the feature of matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build melds which can be either sets (three or four of a kind of the same rank) or runs (three or more sequential cards of the same suit) and either be first to go out or to amass more points than the opposition.
Magician and writer John Scarne believed Gin Rummy to have evolved from 19th-century whiskey poker (a game similar to Commerce, with players forming poker combinations [5]) and to have been created with the intention of being faster than standard Rummy but less spontaneous than knock Rummy. [6] Card game historian David Parlett finds Scarne's ...
David Parlett's book Teach Yourself Card Games recommends the site as the first and probably the only place one needs to seek for rules of card games, [3] and his A-Z of Card Games refers to entries in pagat.com for the rules of those games that are only mentioned in the book. [4]
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This category is for round games i.e. those played by a variable number of players, e.g. 2–6, or 3–8, with no or minimal change in the mode of play. Examples include Hearts, Rams and basic Rummy. This category excludes: Games usually played by a fixed number of players e.g. two-, three-, four-and five-player games which have their own ...