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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.
The game combines aspects of Rummy and Phase 10. Play and scoring. Game play. Before play starts, all the cards are shuffled. A game of ...
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.
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]
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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. In 2012, Fundex Games filed for bankruptcy in the Southern District of Indiana. [2] [3] The assets of the company were acquired in a bankruptcy auction by Poof-Slinky, Inc. [4]
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