Indian Rummy Rules & Score Calculation

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What is a Table?

As per Rummy card rules, a game of Rummy online is played on a table. In a typical case, one game of Indian rummy is played on one Table at a time.

What is a Deck of cards?

• 4 suits of 13 cards, creating a group of 52
• 1 Wild Card joker, which is also known as a Paper Joker

What is a Joker?

One randomly selected card from the deck becomes the Joker for the game, according to Rummy card rules. All cards of the same rank in any suit are considered Jokers, as well. Two other joker cards with the Joker symbol will also be present. While playing Rummy online, a Joker card can be used as any card while making sets. However, as per Rummy rules, one sequence in the game needs to be made without a Joker card.

What are Chips?

On A23, players need Chips to play Rummy online. Chips are deducted from a player's account when they initiate a game - they are also rewarded Chips when they win, depending on the reward in store.

There are three Chip types:

• Play Chips: These free Chips can be used to play Rummy and other games. Once the balance goes below 1000, these can be reloaded.
• Cash can be used to play games involving cash-based rewards and prizes.
• Tournament Chips are applicable only for Multi Table Tournaments; these are only added to the player's account when they register a Tournament on A23.

What is a Round?

As per the Rummy guide, a Round is essentially a simple game of Rummy, which starts with the dealing of cards and ends with a successful Show being made.

What is Dealing?

To play Rummy, each player needs to be given cards. This act of card distribution is called Dealing.

What is Draw and Discard?

In all Rummy online games, players can pick from 2 stacks and draw a card. Once a card is drawn, a card has to be gotten rid of, as well - this means discarding.
Cards can be drawn from either the un-dealt pile or the discarded pile. A turn can be dropped, as well. However, this can only be done before drawing a card - refer to the Rummy rules.

What is Meld and Show?

Players are provided with 13 cards per hand. When you play Rummy, the objective is to arrange them into 4 groups of 3, 3, 3, and 4. They can be both Life or Set in nature. Once these groups are made, they have to be submitted for validation. This is called Show, in which the player has to arrange the cards into Lives or Sets - this is called Melding.

What is a Group?

Grouping is the activity wherein a player can arrange their cards into groups of their choice. When playing Rummy online on an A23 table, the "Group" button appears when two or more cards are selected. This button enables players to create separate groups for these selected cards. A maximum of 6 groups can be created on A23 at one time.

What is a Drop?

Before Drawing the first card, the players have a choice to avoid playing a round. As per the Rummy card rules, this is called a Drop.
If a drop is made in 101 Pool, the given score is 20.
If a drop is made in 201 Pool, the given score is 25.
If a drop is made in 51 Pool, the given score is 10.
In Best of 2 and Best of 3, a drop cannot be made

What is a Middle Drop?

By neither Drawing nor Discarding any cards, a player can make the choice of not playing after the beginning of a round. This is called Middle Drop in Indian rummy rules.
If a middle drop is done in 101 Pool, the score given is 40.
If a middle drop is done in 201 Pool, the score given is 50.
If a middle drop is done in 51 Pool, the score given is 20.
A Middle Drop should not be made in Best of 2 and Best of 3.

What is Auto Drop?

An Auto Drop allows a player the choice to not play a round, but only before their turn.

Once the player's turn arrives, the hand gets dropped.

This cannot be done once a card is drawn or discarded.

What is a Full Count?

The highest possible score reachable in one round is called a Full Count. In all A23 games, the count is 80 points.

What is "Meld Group" in Rummy Online?

When players place a show after their groups are created, the "Meld Group" option is shown to them. This "Group Meld" option lets players use a single click to meld all the cards in a group into one. In case this is not desired, the "Group Meld" can be disabled by selecting one card in the group. This feature can be ignored entirely by picking one card from a group and the player then has the ability to meld cards from other groups.

Play Rummy: When is a deck reshuffled?

Reshuffling is done when all of a deck's cards have been completed. This process utilizes the discarded and dropped cards, with cards that were dropped initially and during the middle, as well.

Rummy Guide: What is Group Save?

For the players who use grouping during gameplay, groups will be saved on our servers and will be used to decide your score. Group Save will happen as soon as any change is made to groups. In case of disconnection, your last saved groups will be used for deciding your score. Group save is disabled the moment the player stops using grouping functionality. New groups will be saved the moment grouping is enabled.

Rummy Online: What is Autoplay?

When someone disconnects, the Autoplay feature gets enabled for pool and stake table players playing Indian Rummy - this is only if a card has been drawn from either the open or the closed deck. The default number of autoplay rounds is three, after which the system decides the course of the game based on the saved group score of the player while playing Rummy online.

In case the saved group score is lower than the middle drop count, the autoplay movement will continue until a show is placed by another player. If the score is higher, then the player will be in contention for a middle drop, according to the Rummy sequence rules.

This cannot be applied to games of "Best of X" nature, which always go into autoplay, rendering the player unable to drop or middle drop out of it. In case a player places a show, the disconnected one is given whichever is lesser - either the middle drop score or the saved group score. In case of disconnection after a discard and a show is made before the player's turn, the score is calculated using the saved cards, as autoplay does not apply in this case. If one disconnects before drawing the first card, the player will be dropped entirely, with the game not going into autoplay. This should be kept in mind, as players play Rummy.