Talk:Rummy

message: The standard game I've always known as "rummy" is quite distinct from gin rummy. Perhaps there should be some clarification on this point. -Branddobbe 18:13, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: AFAIK "Rummy" refers to the game that is named Basic Rummy in the article, and Straight Rummy at pagat.com. I've never heard it to be used to refer specifically to Gin Rummy. If one wants to have a shorter expression for Gin Rummy, I think one uses the word "Gin" rather than "Rummy". To complicate matters, there are a plethora of games called <something> Rummy, which are classified as Rummy games. However, not all Rummy games are called <something> Rummy, Canasta and Pan being notable examples.Punainen Nörtti 09:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gin?

message: Matching games redirects to rummy? It shouldn't. There are so many matching card games and rummy is just one of them. – Morganfitzp 20:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Matching games REDIRECT

message: If someone understands what this is trying to say, please improve the wording:
Also if a player has 3 of a kind, one of which continues another sequence on the field then another player may also continue off of that card. For example: if a player had a 3, 4, and 5 of hearts and another player had a three of a kind with 6, then another player may continue the sequence off of the player with 6. --Espoo 14:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  incomprehensible explanation 

message: I put the statement that Rummy is an Indian game into a new sub-section on History. It's an interesting point but needs to be developed. OldSpot61 (talk) 22:45, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indian? 

message: If a player has less than 10 points of deadwood he can knock. On his turn, he will discard one card face down and show his hand. The opponent will show his hand as well and he may get rid of (“lay off”) any of his deadwood cards if they can fit into the runs or sets of the Rummy knocking player thus reducing his deadwood (I refer to this Rummy section). 
87.98.212.226 (talk) 06:33, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Rules of Rummy vary considerably among different versions of the game: this describes a situation in one such version. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:40, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knocking 

message: Wouldn't it be better to call "rummy" a "melding" rather than a matching game, since melds can be sequences as well as matches? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 14:27, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Melding or matching?

message: I suggest that the first sub-heading in this article gets changed from "Book" to "Meld" as I believe it is more common for people to refer to the sequences or groups of cards of the same denomination that enable to lay down their cards as "melds" rather than "books". ACEOREVIVED (talk) 00:12, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion to change a sub-heading in this article

message: Really great edits everyone. The article is looking better and better! Shabidoo | Talk 16:13, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits over the last few weeks 

message: I've noticed that several variations in the "Basic rummy" section have actually been added to the basic text itself, rather than being added into the dedicated "variations" section. It seems like the variations should be moved into that dedicated section.
I mention this because the Basic rummy text seems to very closely follow Pagat's rules of basic rummy (without explicitly stating it), and so variations would seem to make sense in the variations section.
Thoughts on this?
Velocitay (talk) 17:59, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move variations of Basic rummy into "Variations" section 

message: Hi Gayatri.Ivaturi21 and 2005, there've been a couple of back and forth edits adding and removing the commercial site https://www.ace2three.com/ as an external link to the article (, , ).
Perhaps we can come to a resolution here about how to include any information about this site that is relevant to wikipedia, before we go ahead with any more edits. What do you two think? Velocitay (talk) 18:41, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits and reverts to Ace2Three commercial site link 

message: In the Play section of the article, a rule is mentioned that "discarded points would be 'rummy,'" however, there seems to be no description of what this means. Specifically, there should be a description of what a point is in this context and what it means to call "rummy." StewFor2Dollars (talk) 13:33, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discarded Points 

message: I'd like to inform You about an other variant mostly played in Czech and Slovakia. I discuss It about here, because maybe It is a same game. It is named Žolík, which means joker card.
Cassa342 (talk) 10:53, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: You can create a draft Draft:Žolík and, provided it has good references, it can be added as a separate article. If you're not sure, post the information at User talk:Cassa342/Žolík and I'll take a look at it.Bermicourt (talk) 20:35, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Czechoslovak variant of Rummy