Your goal is to score an as low as possible deadwood. All cards in your hand that are not in a combination count towards your deadwood total. Your score is determined by the so-called deadwood. Note that the ace can only be used as the value of 1. 3 of Spades - 4 of Spades - 5 of Spades.If you take a face-down card from the deck, it is allowed to discard this card as well. If you take the visible card, you have to discard one of your other cards. This way you always hold 10 cards after your turn. Once you take a card, you have to discard a card as well. You can do this by taking an extra card from the deck or the one visible card. Your goal is to create sets of 3 or 4 cards consisting of either all the same numbers or a sequence in the same suit. In addition, there is one card face up next to the deck, this is the discard pile. The remaining cards are placed face down in a deck in the middle, the stock pile.
DealĮach player is dealt 10 cards at the start of the game. Gin Rummy uses a regular French-suited deck of 52 cards. Gin Rummy is played with 2 players, playing against each other.
