Indian Rummy

Indian Rummy, also called Paplu, is a 13-card rummy game popular in India. It is a draw and discard game in the wider Rummy family, with ideas close to Rummy 500 and Gin Rummy: reduce deadwood by arranging your hand into suited sequences and same-rank sets.

How to Play Indian Rummy

Each player starts with 13 cards. On your turn, draw from the face-down stock or take the open discard. After drawing, select one card to discard. If the 13 cards left in your hand form a valid declaration, select the final discard and press Declare Hand.

Valid Declaration

A valid Indian Rummy declaration needs at least two sequences, and one sequence must be pure. A pure sequence is three or more consecutive cards of the same suit with no joker. An impure sequence can use a printed joker or the hand's wild joker rank to fill a missing card.

Sets, Sequences, and Jokers

A set is three or four cards of the same rank with no duplicate natural suit. This version uses two French decks plus printed jokers. At the start of each hand, one rank becomes the wild joker rank, so every card of that rank can also stand in for another card when building impure sequences or sets.

Scoring

The player who declares scores zero for the hand. Unarranged cards score as deadwood: number cards count face value, aces and face cards count 10, and printed or wild jokers count zero. A losing hand is capped at 80 points, and the lower total wins before reaching 101.