We all have that
one friend who talks trivia in midst of a game, and we absolutely adore him for
his ability to turn awkward silences into entertaining moments. Most often
these conversations get really interesting because those things are usually
never discussed outside the game arena. Do you want to be that guy saying interesting facts about rummy, show-off
that you know about rummy? Then here
are ten quick facts about rummy that you
should know about.
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Nobody has been able to find on which century or at which place the
game of rummy got originated. There were
various old card games like Conquian, Mah-jong etc. which are theorised to be
the ancestor of rummy by different people.
- Nobody has any idea who took this survey, or how, but it is claimed that Rummy was played as a family game in early 1960’s till 70’s and the consolidated playtime was greater than that of all other board and card games combined.
- Just like its history, there are many variations to the game in different parts of the world. And one of them is Indian marriage (Yes, that’s right).
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"Rum" is British slang for "odd" or "peculiar" or "queer"
- perhaps their first reaction on learning the particular mechanics of the new
game. Some have suggested that the game was
originally played for rum, with the
loser of a hand buying the next round.
- There is a reason why people try to associate rummy with alcohol (rum), but surprising as it might seem, gin rummy and 500 Rum has nothing to do with that.
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In
the previous years of rummy, only rich
people could afford to play rummy (pretty discriminative) and the reason
was the nature of the cards. Each card
was hand painted!
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Edmond Hoyle was a writer best
known for his works on the rules of card games. Hoyle expanded his manuscript on
the rules of the then card game called whist
and sold it for the high price of one guinea (The guinea was a coin of approximately one
quarter ounce of gold that was minted in Great
Britain between 1663 and 1814)
and later sold the rights to whist to
bookseller Francis Cogan for 100 guineas, an
enormous sum for a small pamphlet.
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Stuart Errol "Stu" Ungar (1953 –1998)
was one of the greatest professional poker, blackjack and gin
rummy players ever, who
won a local gin tournament at the age of 10. He dropped out of school to
play gin rummy in the 1960s full-time to help support his mother and
sister after his father died. Then he gave up playing gin rummy and eventually
took up poker because he became a marked man. Nobody wanted to play him in gin. He won or finished high in so
many gin tournaments that several casinos
asked him to not play in them because many players said they would not enter if
they knew Ungar was playing.
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Shuffling is a procedure
used to randomize a deck of playing cards. While cut, to ensure that the shuffler has not manipulated the outcome.
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Here are a few simple but awesome quotations that
you can dramatically leak through to your friends while playing the next round:
Man is a gaming
animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other…Charles Lamb.
When the cards are
dealt, I just want to destroy people…Stu
Ungar
There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness….Dave Barry
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled, till I have a good
hand….Jonathan Swift
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport….Charles lamb
