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
Rummy David Parlett to be ancestral to all rummy games, which itself is derived from a Chinese game called Khanhoo and, going further back, Mahjong.<ref> Rummy Rummy is a group of matching-card games notable for similar gameplay based on matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build "melds" which consists of sets, three or four of a kind of the same rank; or runs, three or more cards in sequence, of the same suit. If a player discards a card, making a run in the discard pile,