ONLINE RUMMY TIPS AND TRICKS

This is one of the most essential tips for all rummy players. Always try to form a pure sequence before moving on to impure sequences and sets. Not doing it may increase your burden later.

The most obvious, yet ignored, strategy that rummy players often forget is not drawing cards from the discard pile. Doing this gives hints to your opponents about your cards.

Carefully observe your opponent's moves to keep track of cards that they pick or discard from the open deck. It is critical to have an idea of others' hands to predict your opponent's strategy. You can avoid discarding cards that your opponent may require.

Try to get rid of cards with high point value early on. Waiting to form pure sequences or sets with high point cards like King, Ace, Jack, or Queen only increase your point burden as your opponent will get enough time to declare before you.

Players usually ignore or overlook the trick of forming sequences and sets using 4 cards. A sequence or set can be made by more than 3 cards as well, with the maximum limit being 4.

The pure sequence should be made quickly and players shouldn't wait for the perfect cards to come. Instead, reevaluate your hand and rearrange them to move towards making a valid declaration.

Middle cards are versatile as they help to form combinations with other such cards instead of low or high-value cards. For instance, 5 of any suit can make a run with 3, 4, or 6, 7 or 4, 6, while a high-value Ace card can only make a run with 2, 3.

Be wise while using your Joker cards as your win depends on it. If you already have a pure sequence, leverage the available Joker card or wild card to complete the second sequence. And if there are already two sequences in your hands (including a pure sequence), you can use the wild card to make sets/sequences with high-point cards. Keep in mind, a pure sequence is not formed with a joker.

Another rummy tip you can use to avoid confusion is to alternate the colors and arrange your cards in the black-red-black or red-black-red color combination. Doing this reduces your chances of discarding a useful card by mistake.

While drawing from the open pile to make a sequence, you should know that just your opponents are also keeping an eye on your move. This is where you need to play smart. For instance, you can discard a card that is part of your sequence isn't needed as you have two such cards.

Analyzing and keeping a count of the card points in your hand throughout the rummy game is important. To do that, you should count the points in hand after every move.

A player must know which card to discard. One should discard the idle cards that do not participate in making sequences or triplet chances. Doing this increases the number of cards that will allow you to declare, thereby doubling your chance to win.

Speaking of combinations, forming a pure sequence at the beginning is advisable. Since the Joker cannot be used in pure sequence, completing it at the beginning gives the player the flexibility to tinker with his remaining cards to find the best combination. Hence, the very first objective after the cards are dealt is to form a pure sequence

In Indian Rummy, there are two types of Joker cards – the one that comes with the deck, also known as ‘Printed Joker’ and the designated joker, also known as ‘Cut Joker’. Joker is an extremely important card to have. Except in the Pure Sequence, a joker can be used to complete any combination, be it sets or sequences. If wisely used, the joker can be the weapon that wins you games most of the time.

An extension from the previous tip, a tip to make the best use of the joker cards is to discard cards surrounding the ‘Cut Joker’. Usually, the wildcard joker is used in combinations where the player lacks the cards needed to complete the set or sequence. If used as a regular card to make a pure sequence, it can enable a player to make another pure sequence without a joker.

It is also important to have a watchful eye on every move your opponents make in each turn. Their discarded cards can help one to narrow down the combinations they are going for. In case you already possess a card that could potentially help others at the table, it is advisable to keep hold of it, temporarily.

At the start of every rummy game on MPL, the AI will automatically sort and arrange cards for you in suitable combinations. However, do not be afraid to re-organize your cards from time to time. This opens up more possibilities to form valid sets and sequences, that might have otherwise gone unnoticed.

Rummy is a game of probability. Getting well versed with the basic concepts of probability will help in making calculative decisions while drawing and discarding cards.

For example, 2 decks of cards are required to play rummy and 13 cards are dealt to each player. Hence, you can determine the probability of joker cards that each player has. If you get more than 4 Jokers while playing against one opponent, you could predict that your opponent has none or fewer Jokers. 12 Jokers, i.e. 4 Printed (2 printed jokers per deck) and 8 Wild Jokers are used in rummy. For instance, if you have 5 Jokers, it can be assumed that the remaining ones are lying in the closed deck or some of them are with your opponents. Only heads up (2 player matches) is played with one deck.

‘Draw’ and ‘Discard’ are the fundamentals of playing rummy. By judiciously discarding needless cards, a player makes room for better cards, and at times, an altogether new combination. Another tip is usingy middle-value cards like 5, 6, and 7, smartly. They help to form both low and high-value sequences.

Face Cards are high-value cards, losing which reduces the points tally. While there is a possibility you may not win losing them, but the target eventually is to get your score as low as possible. Keeping it less than 40 may put a player in a better situation than dropping overall.

Taking a step further, a player can guess the cards that his/her opponents have in hand, simply by memorizing the ones they have discarded.