Rummy ١٢+

I enjoy playing against people and their various styles of play. The game is the same as my childhood version, but some players are used to gin rummy which is a challenge and makes the game more interesting. I have played the version you can invite friends to play and have played my daughter, who lives in Ohio, while I was in Georgia.

My only complaint is you used to be able to see your ranking against other players. I would literally play for hours to get below 50 and as close as possible to the top ten players. But for several weeks now, it just says loading and never loads…it took some of competitive joy out of playing when you don’t know where you rank.

If there is too much of a spread in the scores, the computer-player will Gin repeatly to catch up, then win. There was one time I counted eight Gins in a row. Can’t be that lucky!

Other times, the computer-player’s hand shown at the end of a game could have easily melded the required value of cards but didn’t, and we were not playing Gin Rummy.

I love playing, and play a lot, but don’t enjoy the game as much if I feel the computer-player isn’t playing an authentic game.

I’ve played 490 hands so far of this version and the only issue I have with it — and its a big one! — is that occasionally the drawing will go on eternally without a card being played. There’s no way to end the game or even “throw” the game for it to end!

I’ve just screenrecorded 30 rounds where the same cards were being drawn and discarded (I had one card left, the other three AI players had 4, 3, and 4 card left, respectively). I started recording after 15 rounds of this (so 45 total rounds) and finally started discarding every card I drew to give my opponents whatever they needed to win...to no avail.

I play the Expert level and have won 49% of the hands, so I’m not complaining about fairness or the like, only that this glitch is enough to make me consider finding another Rummy app.