Gin Rummy for Android

DECK

One deck of cards with no jokers.

STOCK PILE

A pile of cards that remained after the Dealer distributing 10 cards each player

face down and put the 21th card face up on Discard.

DISCARD

A pile of cards where each player drop the 11th card in each turn.

RNANK of Cards

K-Q-J-10-9-8-7-65-4-3-2-A (King is high, Ace is low

VALUES of CARDS

Face cards (K-Q-J) have 10 points each. Ace has 1 point and all the other (10-2) have their face value appropriately.

GAMEPLAY

Gin Rummy is a popular and faster version of Rummy game that is mainly played by two players

with one standard deck excluding Jokers. The match is lasts in series of hands till the first

player passes 100 points.

In each hand the player organizes the cards in sets of three or four cards with the same

rank (for an example 8-S, 8-H, 8-D) or a run of three or more cards of consecutive rank in

the same suit (for an example 4-H,5-H,6-H) and the rest of cards are called Deadwood.

In each hand of the game there are two stages for each player. Each player starts his turn

when the second player ends his turn. The first stage takes place when the player takes card

from the Stock or Discard pile of cards (So holding 11 cards) and in the second stage the player

drops a card on Discard. The player may end the current hand only when he drops a card.

Each hand may be ended only in the second stage of his turn when a player drops the 11th card in two ways:

1) Gin Rummy

All the 10 cards forms melds of sets/Runs suits.]

There is a special case of Gin Rummy so called BIG GIN which occurs when all the 11 cards form melds including the 11th card being dropping.

The score is calculated at the end of each hand.

2) Knocking

Not all the cards are organized in sets/run suits but accumulated Deadwood values cards are less than 11 points.

Lay off cards is not allowed in Gin Rummy.

The opponent may lay off cards in deadwood to extends the cards in sets/run suits of the player

who Knocking. The laid off cards are not counting in scoring.

SCORING

The scoring is performed at the end of each round of hand and in addition at the end of the game

when one player reaches to 100 points. The round scoring depends on how the round hand ended.

Case 1:

GIN Rummy - The player who drop the card to Discard when GIN Rummy scenario occurs reward points

of the total value of opponent deadwood cards plus GIN BONUS.

Case 2:

Knocking occurs. Each player counts the values of the cards in the Deadwood.

If the count of the player who knocked is less than the opponents count

(After opponent laid off cards) the player gains the this round by the difference

between the two counts. Otherwise the opponent win this round and get difference

between the counts plus OPPONENT BONUS (or Undercut Bonus) point bonus.

Features

1) Play Gin Rummy in Portrait and Landscape orientation mode. You may switch between these orientations at any time.

2) 5 Opponents from Level 1 (inexperienced player) to 5 (The the best in Verednet club)

3) Sound - On/Off.

4) Vibration - On/off.