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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 the rummy by different people.
- Nobody knows 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 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. And“Old Monk was not the inventor of Rummy!”
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Nobody
knows the name of these players’ or their nationality now, but some friends have played 500 point matches
of Rummy game for years. And the value set was one penny for one point.
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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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If
you look at the deck of the cards more closely, you’ll notice thatonly Queen of Diamonds smiles slightly among all the queens. And king of Hearts hides a knife behind
his head. The king of Diamonds has got an axe. And others? Just
swords.
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Edmond Hoyle (1672 –1769) was a writer
best known for his works on the rules of card games. If a western oriented person, who is a fan of
rummy, ever utters the phrase "according to Hoyle", now you know
where that came from.
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Hoyle expanded his manuscript on the rules of
the then card game called whist and it
for the high price of one guinea 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 the greatest professional poker, blackjack and gin
rummy player 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, and began regularly winning tournaments which
earned him $10,000 or more.
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Then he gave up playing gin rummy and eventually
took up poker because Ungar 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
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