The basic requirement for winning a hand is at least two sequences, one of which must be "pure", i.e., made without any jokers.
It was first developed as a court game with a lavish deck of playing cards composed of priceless materials and gems.
[3] It is a draw and discard based game, wherein each player picks a card from the open pile or the closed deck upon their turn and discards a card to the open pile.
Face cards, namely Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Aces hold 10 points each.
The game play goes on in an anti-clockwise manner until the winner completes required sets & sequences.
The basic 13-card strategy is to make valid sequences and sets before one's opponents.
At the conclusion of the hand, the unmade points held by the losing players are added up.
If the hand value of a losing player exceeds 80, a score of 80 is entered (for example, 91 points would be counted as 80) The three most popular Indian Rummy variants that follow a similar pattern of play, based on the draw and discard of cards are: In addition to the standard jokers in the deck, one player selects a card out of the stock.
However, the states of Assam and Orissa have not provided clear rulings on this matter and are thus ambiguous territories.