Card Values: Each number card is worth its face value, Jacks are 11 points, Queens are 12, Kings are 13, Jokers are 50, and the current wild card is 20 points. The deck includes five suits with 11 cards in each suit (3 through King), as well as six wild cards. In this guide, we’ll talk more about how the game works and go over the official rules you need to know.

You can’t double-count cards for books at the end, but holding this at the beginning of a round is a smart idea to help you find matching cards. Once someone goes down, all other players get one more turn to lower their hand count and they lay down their cards. An example would be to hold onto the 5 and Jack of spades if you already have a 7-8-9 of spades run. To be the player with the lowest score at the end of the 11th round by making your entire hand into books and/or runs. This may depend on the score differential between yourself and the current winning player, or player(s) closest to you if you are currently winning.

The player on the dealer’s left becomes the new dealer, All cards are shuffled and the next hand is dealt. It can be a lot to watch and track all of the discards, but with practice, you’ll learn to keep your finger on the pulse of the odds for a given book and adjust as needed. In addition, a wild card can take the form of any other, making them useful when building books and runs. Watch For Sets Over Runs For Faster Matches – There are 10 of each card, so your odds are pretty good of getting sets. The wilds and changing rounds make the game a bit faster and more interesting to some people than the standard rummy game.

The deal passes to the player on the dealer’s left, all cards are shuffled and the next hand is dealt.To begin, take the top card from the draw pile and decide which of the 11 piles you want to play it in. A lot of good players will use the same cards to go for multiple books at a time and open up the odds of getting a card that works for them. For example, when four cards are dealt, the 4s are wild, when five cards are dealt, the 5s are wild, and so on until the last hand when the Kings are wild.