This is most like what we used to play......
Contract Rummy or Combination rummy, Deuces Wild Rummy, Joker Rummy and Phase 10
It is a game of 3-8 players and has developed from Gin Rummy. The game uses multiple decks of 54 cards and jokers are treated as wild cards. Each player is dealt 10 cards for the first 4 rounds and 12 cards for the last 3 rounds. It is played for 7 deals with rules changing in each deal, although the aim of forming sequences and sets remains the same. Here face cards hold 10 points each, Aces have 15 points each and Jokers carry 25 points each. Complexity goes on increasing with each deal.
Deal Number Cards Dealt Contract
1 10 2 Sets
2 10 1 Set & 1 Run
3 10 2 Runs
4 10 3 Sets
5 12 2 Sets & 1 Run
6 12 1 Set & 2 Runs
7 12 3 Runs
Phase 10's mostly the version played around The Homestead, mainly in the Winter.
The now 5yo twin G-G daughters are very rapidly picking the game up.
Horrible getting skunked by a kid that age.......worse yet when you realize they're teaming up on everybody else.