Robbers' rummy new ones. This makes it "much more exciting and engaging than any other [Rummy] variant...". Danyliuk describes it as "a fun, but difficult, variant of Rummy." The aim of Robber's Rummy is to be the first player to discard all the cards in hand by forming melds and placing them on table. Robbers' rummy is played using two standard 52-card French decks, and 2 to 6 jokers. Initially, each player is dealt 11 to 13 cards from the shuffled deck, whose remainder, called the "stock" is placed face-down on the table. The goal of each player is to reduce the
Robbers' rummy All cards which were on the table, before the placement of the own cards from hand, must remain on the table. An essential point to recognize is that any meld consisting of four cards may be reduced to an equally regular three-card meld by removing or "robbing" one card, which in turn may be used to form other melds. The name "Robbers' rummy" reflects the characterization, by proponents of normal rummy, of such liberty in playing this game as excessive, or even "offensive." Examples It should be noted that any jokers on the table may be re-used to represent a