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Postal Rules follow the standard Phase 10 rules with two additions: 1) No player can go out (play all 10 cards), thus ending the hand, until play has completed one circuit of the table and play has returned to the dealer, regardless if someone was skipped. The dealer is the first player who can end the hand by playing all 10 of their cards.
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.
Individual card. The deck consists of 162 cards, twelve each of the numbers 1 through 12 and eighteen "SKIP-BO" wild cards which may be played as any number. Alternatively, the 162 cards could be three regular decks of playing cards, including the jokers, with ace to queen corresponding to 1 to 12 and the kings and jokers corresponding to the SKIP-BO cards.
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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A set is a combination of three or more of a specific number of cards of the same rank, and the suit is not important. An example of a set is three cards that are all 8's, and the 8's can all be of different suits. A run is a combination of four cards in the same suit that have consecutive ranks. An example of a run is the 3 of clubs, 4 of ...
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.
A book consists of three or more cards of the same value regardless of suit. i.e., 10★, 10★, 10♣, and 10♦. Any card in a book can be replaced by the wild card of the round or a Joker. i.e., if nines are wild, your book could consist of the following: 5♦, 5★, 9♣, 5♣.