Rummoli

This Canadian board game, first marketed in 1940 by the Copp Clark Publishing Company of Toronto[1] requires a Rummoli board, a deck of playing cards (52 cards, no jokers), and chips or coins to play.

The game is usually played for fun, or for small stakes (e.g. Canadian Dimes).

Rummoli is one of the more popular versions of the Stops Group of matching card games,[2] in particular it falls into a subgroup of stops games based on the German Poch[3] and falls into a family of Poch variants such as the French Nain Jaune (Yellow Dwarf), the Victorian Pope Joan but most like the American game Tripoley (a proprietary name, occasionally called by the generic Michigan rummy, but not to be confused with 500 rum) which debuted eight years earlier in Chicago in 1932.

Before the cards are dealt, each player pays one chip to each pot on the Rummoli board.

Once the bid is accepted the player is committed to the exchange regardless if the widow is a poorer hand.