500 Rum – Card Game Guidelines

The PackThe common 52-card pack is utilised.
Object of the GameTo lay matched quantity sets of three or four and/or sequences of three or a lot more cards of the very same suit to be the initial player to get 500 complete net factors.
Rank of Cards
Ace (high or low), K, Q, J, ten, 9, 8, seven, 6, five, four, 3, two, A.
Card Values/ScoringScore factors by laying down and laying off cards as in normal Rummy, in matched variety sets of three or 4, and in sequences of three or much more cards of the identical suit. For instance, 3 or four 7s can be laid or a sequence of three, four, five of diamonds can be laid.
When any player gets rid of all of their cards, the perform right away ends. Every single player’s score is then figured as follows: The player is credited with the level value of all cards that the player has displaying on the table. From this figure is subtracted the stage worth of all cards remaining in their hand. The variation is added or subtracted from the player’s score.
For instance: If the cards showing for a player complete 87 factors, and the cards left in the player’s hand total 90 factors, three points are subtracted from the player’s prior net score.
The very first player whose score reaches +500 wins the game and collects from each and every opponent the big difference between their final scores. If two or far more players attain 500 on the exact same hand, the one particular with the highest score is the winner.
The DealDeal seven cards to each player (except in the two player game, in which each and every player receives 13 cards). Location undealt cards encounter down in the center of the table, forming the stock. The leading card is turned face up and is placed beside the stock as the up card to start off the discard pile. The discard pile must be slightly spread, so that players can readily see all the cards it consists of.
The PlayEach player, beginning with the player to the left of the dealer, could draw both the best card of the stock or any card from the discard pile.
There are two circumstances when drawing a card from the discard pile: 1) the player should get all the cards above the picked card and two) the drawn card need to immediately be utilised, both by laying it down in a set or by laying it off on a set currently on the table. The remaining cards taken with the discard may be melded in the exact same turn or merely extra to the player’s hand.
Each and every player in turn, right after drawing but just before discarding, may lay down any matched set or might lay off any card that matches a set currently on the table.
Cards that are laid off are stored on the table in front of the player. Sequences might not “go round the corner” hence, A, K, Q or A, 2, three might be melded, but not K, A, two.