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Advanced Rummy Rules for Serious Rummy Players
The Rummy game goes way deeper than new Rummy players may think. Beginners
find Rummy very easy to learn, but avid Rummy players know that the
learning does not end when you already know how to play the game. There
are many other aspects of Rummy that most new Rummy players do not know
about. The basic rules of Rummy can also be tweaked and modified in many
ways to make the game more exciting, varied, and challenging. As a Rummy
player, once you’ve mastered the basic form of the game, it’s time to
start spicing things up again, and these additional and more advanced
rules will definitely help in that area.
Additional Rummy Rules
In the regular set of Rummy rules, players are only allowed to lay down
one meld in one turn. However, this part of the rules in Rummy can be
changed to speed up the pace of the game and to increase the excitement.
Some Rummy games allow players to lay down more than one meld in one turn.
In some games, in fact, players can lay down as many melds as they can,
all in a single turn. Aside from that, in some Rummy games, players who
are able to go out or to get rid of all their cards in one turn either by
melding their entire hand or by laying off all the cards in their hand
when they haven’t melded or laid down cards prior to that turn can win
special bonus points, usually equivalent to ten points. This is not
usually applied, but it is called in the Rummy world as “going Rummy.” In
some cases, the score for that particular hand is also be doubled. Aside
from that, there are also some Rummy games where the players are required
to lay down a meld of their own before they can lay off or add cards to
the melds of other players. Rummy games that follow this rule work
similarly to a Contract Rummy game where the players cannot lay off cards
without first meeting a specific required meld, except that in the
standard Rummy version, the players can form any kind of meld. Another
possible variation of the standard Rummy game is the last discard rule.
There are some players who prefer to apply this rule, which means that in
your last turn, you cannot go out by melding or laying off all your
remaining cards. The last discard rule requires that you still discard one
card during your last turn.
Rummy Rules on Aces
Aces are particularly tricky in Rummy. In the world of Rummy, aces are
usually considered as low cards, which means they have low values. In most
games, the aces are only equivalent to one point each. However, you can
also play Rummy where the aces have both high and low values. You can
treat the aces as equal to either one point or to eleven points. So when
you are forming melds around aces, you can group together an ace, a two,
and a three, which forms a valid run with the ace taking a low value.
Likewise, you can also group together an a queen, a king, and an ace, with
the ace taking a high value. Games that apply this rule offer the players
more opportunities for melding and makes the aces more useful. For more
advanced games, some players even break down the ends of the card values
and allow round-the-corner melds. This means you can form melds with aces
in the middle like a meld made up of a king, an ace, and a two. However,
this rule is not just optional; it is also very unusually and is seldom
used though advanced Rummy players may apply it from time to time.
Rummy Rules on the Stock Pile
There are also some varying rules with regard to the stock pile. In
certain games, the stock pile eventually runs out. In most regular
settings, once this happens, the player can draw from the discard.
However, most players do not like dipping into the discard pile, so the
discards are usually reshuffled and placed face down on the table and is
treated as the new stock pile. There are, however, some players who do not
think this is such a good idea, since players can just take back cards
that they have already discarded, which defeats the purpose of the discard
move. In some cases, a game where this is done may just keep on going
endlessly. Some games find a compromising situation where they re-use the
discard pile as a stock pile for only a set number of times. After the
predetermined number, the play automatically ends provided that the player
refuses to take the discard. Some players prefer that the discard pile be
re-used only once, while some allow that it be re-used for up to three
times.
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