The top card of the stock is turned face up and becomes the upcard.
The remaining cards are placed face down on the table, forming the stock. When three or four people play, each receives seven cards when five or six play, each receives six cards. When two people play, each person gets 10 cards. (In many forms of Rummy, the ace may rank either high or low.) The Dealĭealer gives one card at a time face down, beginning with the player on the left.
A pleasing feature of the game is that it is so simple to play and has many variations. Rummy works better than Gin Rummy when there are more than two players. Rummy is still one of the best-known card games in the United States, though in many regions it has been superseded by Gin Rummy and Oklahoma Gin.
