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What is Rummy?

Rummy is a popular card game that is one of a larger number of Draw and Discard games. The basic objective of Rummy is to improve one’s Hand, that is, whatever cards one has, by drawing and discarding cards and forming sets. Certain rules, described later, have to be followed while making these sets.

According to the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, Rummy is a game of skill and not a game of chance and absolutely legal to play.

What is Draw and Discard?

In all Rummy games, each player is dealt a hand of cards. Additionally, there are 2 stacks from which each player can select cards, thereby drawing a card. Once a player draws a card, he has to get rid of one card - this is called discarding.

A player can draw from either the closed un-dealt cards or the open discarded pile.

What is Indian Rummy?

Indian Rummy (13 card rummy) is a variant of Rummy popular in India that involves making valid sets out of 13 cards. Each player is dealt 13 cards initially; each has to draw and discard cards by turns till one player melds his/her cards with valid sets that meet the Rummy validat1ion rules.

What is a Table?

A Table is where a Game of rummy is played. Typically, one Game of rummy is played on one Table.

What is Meld and Show?

For a particular Hand, each player is provided with 13 cards. The objective of Rummy is to arrange these cards into 4 groups of 3, 3, 3 and 4 cards. These groups can be either Life or Set. A minimum of 2 Lives are required to have a valid arrangement. Once the player has made these groups, he has to submit the cards in groups for validation. This action of submitting the cards is called Show. However, to have a successful Show, the player has to arrange the cards into Lives or Sets. This action of arranging the cards in groups is called Meld or Melding.

What is a Round?

A Round is part of a Game that starts with Dealing the cards to each player and ends with a player making a successful Show or the prize being Split.

What is Dealing?

To start playing a Round, the cards have to be given to all the players. The act of giving the card to all the players is termed as Dealing.

What is a Deck of cards?

A complete set of cards is called a Deck of cards. A Deck of cards consists of the following cards:

52 cards
4 Suits with 13 cards each

1 joker - A joker can be used in place of any card

What is a Drop?

Players can choose not to play a particular Round before Drawing the first card. This action is termed as Drop.

If a player Drops in 101 Pool, the score is 20.

If a player Drops in 201 Pool, the score is 25.

A player cannot Drop in Best of 3.

What is a Middle Drop?

Players can choose not to play after a Round starts by neither Drawing nor Discarding any cards. This action is termed as Middle Drop.

If a player does a Middle Drop in 101 Pool, the score is 40.

If a player does a Middle Drop in 201 Pool, the score is 50.

A player cannot make a Middle Drop in Best of 3.

What is a Full Count?

A Full Count is the maximum possible score for one Round. For all types of games in Ace2Three, the Full Count is 80.

What are Chips?

Chips are what players need to play on Ace2Three. When a player wants to play a Game, a specific number of Chips are deducted from his account. Similarly, when a player wins a Game, a specific number of Chips are added to his account.

Chips are of 3 types:

Play Chips are free and used to play fun games; can be reloaded anytime the balance falls below 1000.
Real Chips are the ones you buy. Use these to play cash games and win huge prizes.
Tournament Chips are used only in Multi Table Tournaments; are added on registration for any Tournament.

Validation Rules

To make a successful show, a player must have at least 1 Pure Life and 1 Life with/without jokers as described below.

What is a Life?

A Life is a sequence of at least 3 cards of the same suit. To make a successful Show, a player must have at least 1 Pure Life (Straight sequence with no jokers).

Examples of Pure Life are as follows:

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Once a player has 1 Pure Life, he can have a Life with joker(s). Examples of Life with joker(s) are as follows:

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What is a Set?

A Set is a group of 3 or 4 cards with the same Value or different Suits. Examples of Sets are as follows:

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Correct/Wrong Shows

How to place a correct show?

For a correct show, the 13 cards of the hand have to be melded as shown below. At least 2 lives are required.

For example, if 2 lives and 2 sets are being submitted, the cards can be arranged as follows:

To conclude, 2 lives are required for a correct show. In addition to the 2 lives, other lives or sets can be submitted as shown below.

Wrong Show Example 1

A set can have a maximum of 4 cards. Each has to be of a different suit and the same face value. A set cannot have more than 4 cards as shown below. In the example, the set has 4 cards and 1 joker - that is a wrong set.

Wrong Show Example 2

A set can have a maximum of 4 cards. Each has to be of a different suit and the same face value. A set cannot have more than 1 card from the same suit. In the example, the set has two cards from the same suit - that is a wrong set.

Wrong Show Example 3

A set can have a maximum of 4 cards. Each has to be of a different suit and the same face value. A set cannot have more than 4 cards as shown below. In the example, the set has 3 cards and 2 jokers - that is a wrong set.

Wrong Show Example 4

A valid show must have 1 life (sequence) without jokers and 1 life (sequence) with or without a joker. The example does not have any sequnce - that is a wrong show.

Wrong Show Example 5

A valid show must have 1 life (sequence) without jokers and 1 life (sequence) with or without a joker. The example does not have any life - that is a wrong show.

Wrong Show Example 6

A valid show must have 1 life (sequence) without jokers and 1 life (sequence) with or without a joker. The example does not have the second life - that is a wrong show.