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
German Rummy dealer reshuffles the cards and lets his right-hand neighbour cut the deck. In many cases, the rule is that if a player finds a joker when cutting, he may keep it. This is known as robbing or plundering ("rauben"), not to be confused with the rule allowing a joker to be exchanged (see below). The cards are dealt face down clockwise, each player is dealt "thirteen" cards in 3 packets of three and 1 packet of four; the dealer himself takes "fourteen". The remaining cards are placed face down in the middle of the table as a "Stoß" (i.e. a