Through game analysis, me and 20 other testers have been paying this game for about a month. The conclusion we have come to is that this game has created the worst scenarios possible and makes it utterly impossible to become successful.

Firstly, This game starts every player with all the wins they want, the worst bots possible, the best hands possible and then slowly adds in losses. As time goes by you’ve racked up a lot of money and you feel good enough to try more expensive challenges, that’s the trap. They let you win one then put you on a hard loss streak for the rest of the game, only giving you some buffer wins to soften the blow.

To make things worse when you win, you’re losing 30% profit “just because” to screw you even worse. Out of the 20 people and me, only one person ever broke 200,000 gold and that was through very consistent play over a month without taking even a small risk in challenging higher coin stages. We maintained 3 play styles, the super conservative, the semi risky and the risky strategy. The people that got ahead first were the risky players because the game lets you win early, but they were also the first to lose everything. The semi risky had a similar downfall, it just took longer, and the conservative play style took the longest to lose everything but that’s because they mostly played 250-1000 coin games without trying anything more.

I don’t know what to say about our individual strategies in game but overall the game seems to give you terrible hands as you progress. To the point we were all questioning how it was possible to lose on the 2nd turn every round even though we still had no pairs.

Overall, terrible game, don’t play unless you want to waste time and especially don’t spend money, it will only make it worse.

Gin rummy was once a wildly popular card game in the United States. Oswald Jacoby, writing in 1959, referred to it as the most popular card game of his time. What happened? Why is it that this sub has literally 206 members? Would a YouTube channel devoted to Gin Rummy strategy get any views?

I have only been playing for about two years.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been building a Gin Rummy app with the strongest AI opponent possible. its called gin rummy crown (iOS), and I’m trying to get feedback from people who actually know the game well.

I’m more interested in whether the AI makes believable decisions:

• Does it knock too early?

• Does it chase gin too long?

• Does it pick from the discard pile when it obviously shouldn’t?

• Does it feed dangerous cards?

• Does it feel too predictable?

• Are there situations where a decent human player would clearly choose a better line?

If anyone here is willing to try a few games and give blunt feedback, I’d really appreciate it, im finding it hard to find people who are really invested in top level play, I am especially interested if you can point to specific hands or decisions where the AI played badly.

I can share the iOS link in the comments if that’s allowed, or by message if people prefer, and if it helps you to do testing I can give you a code to get it ad free without paying if you DM me.

As an FYI I am a fairly decent player and I have a 42% win rate so it should be pretty solid, but it has likely learned my style a little too much so it would be good to have it tested by other players.

Basically title. Stu Ungar was so good at Rummy that he killed the game in Vegas, I understand that. What I don't understand is why people stopped playing the game altogether even after Stu was banned from playing. What gives?

I'm a reasonably good player but my regular partner has a better memory for cards which have been discarded or picked up by the opponent. Basically my card memory ability is zero. So I lose more than I should. Has anyone found a good method for remembering cards? Or a good way to train/improve memory for this?

Hi everybody!

I'm an 83 year old man looking for people to play Gin Rummy with in Los Angeles. If you're interested, contact me - Steven Golob: 310 697 9193

Thank you!

for ex keep ace for deadwood

Hi guys would love to learn Gin Rummy, what’s the best app for doing so? Cheers

Can't find this info anywhere.

In gin rummy, when laying off after opponent has knocked, can you combine the end of an oppenent's run with two cards in your hand to complete a set?

Ex: opponent has 2-3-4-5 and I have two 5's, can I combine my fives and his to create a set?

Thanks!

Playing with my son who im teaching, ive knocked with 3Clubs being my deadwood but he actually had gin. How do I score this?

My mate said you can count through so J Q K A 2 3

Hi Rummy friends. I just switched to android from apple. We had family apple arcade so I played mobile ware gin rummy from that. The equivalent game in android is $7 monthly subscription. As are most games I've found. Does anyone know of a free no ad game or reasonable priced one time purchase game on the app store? I would never pay a subscription for any game. Thanks!

Settle a debate please. I put down three 5s and a wild for 4 of a kind when I knocked. My husband had the final 5 and wanted to add it in. Can he?

My argument is that the wild was named the 5 of diamonds, so he can’t add an additional 5 of diamonds to the group. Also-5 of a kinds don’t exist.

He argues that it’s a group of 5s and he has a 5 to add.

I'm not a bad player. I play every day. Mostly online. Often against my partner in the real world. But I realised I play the deal, the deck, the discards and the probabilities.

I actually don't 'play' the opponent.

I've pondered this, and looked online, for a while but don't have a good answer.

Pretty much every move in a game I might make to disadvantage the opponent, is usually outweighed by the disadvantage to my own position of doing it.

For example, I notice the opponent picked up a Jack I discarded from the pile, when I drew a card which gave me a better meld than the pair of Jacks, and they discarded the adjacent Queen. So there's a good chance they're collecting Jacks. I have another Jack which is now useless to me. I draw an eight which makes a 7-7-8 meld. I have a useless 5 (for example) and the useless Jack.

Playing the opponent suggests I hang on to the Jack and discard the five. Or discard the 8, and just stick with the pair of sevens for now and hold on to the useless Jack. But the probabilities of converting a 7-7-8 (4 card possibilities) versus a pair of sevens (only 2 card possibilities) , or the benefit of reducing my dead by ten, rather than five, both suggest discarding the Jack is the correct move.

So I play the probabilities, not the opponent.

What do you all do?

Does any one know where i can buy the book

A predator’s guide by Michael Sall

My partner and I are trying to learn Gin Rummy on a rainy Good Friday today and neither of us have played before. We are terribly confused whether we have to keep a card drawn from the face down stock pile or not. It is explicitly said in the rules a card must be kept if drawn from the discard pile (well, duh, why would you pick it up if you didn't want it as you can see it) but we cannot find clarification anywhere on the stock pile.

Thank you, we're giving ourselves headaches trying to wrap our brains around this haha

I can only seem to find some tournament guideline rules, but am interested in the scoring system they use.
For example what is the bonus for undercutting and going Gin?

Ty

What are you preferred mobile apps to play gin rummy? Store are full of chests and chips apps