Conquián

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Conquián is the rummy game of Mexico, played with the 40-card Spanish deck: coins, cups, swords and clubs, numbered 1 to 7 and 10 to 12. It is the oldest rummy game on record: it was mentioned in Mexico City in 1857, reached Texas in the 1860s, and from there gave rise to the whole family of rummy games, gin rummy included. You each hold nine cards, and you win by laying down ten: every card in your hand plus one more.

There is only ever one card in the middle. If you can use it in a meld (three or four of a kind, or three in a row in one suit), take it and lay it down at once, then throw a card away. If not, pass, and a new card is turned from the stock. You can never keep a card in your hand for later, and you may move your own cards on the table around as much as you like. When a card fits your rival’s melds, you can force it on them.

Here you play the computer at easy, medium or hard, with the Spanish or the standard deck faces. A free coach checks every take, pass and discard. Every deal is sealed before the cards are dealt, so you can check afterwards that the shuffle was fixed in advance. No ads, no coins and no account. How to play Conquián · Gin Rummy · Games of Mexico