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Rummying with wild cards
You can also play Rummy with wild cards, or cards that can represent any card you like. You can
add the jokers that come with the cards to the deck, treating them as wild cards, or you can make
the 2s wild, for example.
You can substitute the card represented by a wild card when it’s your turn to play. So if a
combination including a joker, standing in for the ♥4 is put on the table, the next player can put in
the ♥4 and pick up the joker for use elsewhere.
If you put down two eights and a joker, you don’t have to announce which eight the joker
represents, but with a run such as 5-6-joker, the assumption is that the joker represents the 7.
When playing with wild cards, you may not want to put combinations containing wild
cards down immediately; you don’t want to give another player the use of a wild card by way
of the substitution. Of course, if you feel obliged to put down the set or run, try to ensure that
the card your wild card replaces has already been played in some other set or run.
Going out and tallying your score
The first player to be able to put seven of the eight cards in her hand into combinations (including
the card that she picks up in her current turn), or ten of her 11 cards as the case may be, goes out
(places all her cards on the table) and wins. You discard your remaining card as you go out,
usually having made the others into one combination of four and one combination of three. You
don’t have to make the plays at one turn; you may have put down some cards into sets already, of
course. If your last two cards are two sevens, and you pick up a third seven, most people play that
you can go out by making a set, without needing a final discard.
The winner collects points from all the other players. She bases her point total on the remaining
cards in the other players’ hands, regardless of whether the cards make up completed combinations
— which is a good reason to put down melds as soon as you get them.
The players put their cards face-up on the table and call out how many points they have left for the
winner. You score the cards according to the following scale:
2s through 10s get their face value, meaning that a 5 is worth 5 points.
Jacks, queens, and kings receive 10 points apiece.
Wild cards cost you 15 points each, if you are playing with them.
Aces, in keeping with their lowly status during the game, charge you 1 point only.
For example, if you’re left holding ♠K, ♦K, ♦Q, and ♣A at the end of the game, the winner of the
game scores 31 points. With more than two players, the winner cumulates the points from all the
other players.