Kalooki or Kaluki is a card game popularly played in Jamaica.

These are the rules for the original Kalooki game created, refined, and taught by flight attendants of Air Jamaica in the 1970s and 80s.

Aces can be high or low, regardless of their point value, but they cannot be in the middle of a run, so A-2-3-4 and J-Q-K-A are valid, but Q-K-A-2-3 is not.

The number of cards dealt to each player depends on the hand being played as shown in the table below.

The player to the dealer's left begins and the turn to play passes clockwise.

The player places these cards face up in front of them, where they stay for the rest of the hand.

A player who has laid down is no longer allowed to take cards from the discard pile.

When a player has laid down they can no longer call for a discard, and in their turn they must draw from the stock.

If this happens, the discard pile, except for its top card, is reshuffled and placed face down to form a new stock.

If the stock runs out a second time, which may happen if players are holding back the key cards needed by others to lay down their contracts, the play ends with no score.

If the first player laying manages to go out on the same turn that they first lay down cards, this is known as down and out or bending the table, and the other players score double points for that game, known as being doubled up.

At the end of nine hands, the player who has the lowest cumulative score is the winner.

Other usual infractions which may incur 50-point penalties (according to house rules): If the dealer of a hand can successfully cut exactly the correct number of cards to be dealt for that hand, they receive a bonus of -50 points.