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
Gin rummy Gin rummy Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game created in 1909 by Elwood T. Baker and his son C. Graham Baker. It is a variant of rummy. According to the magician and writer John Scarne, gin rummy evolved from 19th-century whiskey poker and was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy but less spontaneous than knock rummy. John Scarne's theory deriving rummy from poker via whiskey poker has not gained general acceptance. Gin rummy is played with a standard 52-card pack of cards. The ranking from high to low is King, Queen, Jack,