Play Gin Rummy online free against a CPU that actually watches your discards. Draw, meld, and knock at ten or less — or hold out for Gin. Match play to 100 with layoffs, undercuts and Big Gin.
About Gin Rummy
Gin Rummy is a duel of ten-card hands where the winning move is knowing when to stop. Every turn is the same small decision — take the face-up discard or gamble on the stock, then throw one card away — but each throw tells your opponent something, and this CPU is listening. Take a seven from the pile and it will quietly stop feeding you sevens and everything near them in suit.
The hand arranges itself as you play: runs and sets snap together with a colored band, the leftovers sit apart as deadwood, and a live counter shows exactly what a knock would cost. That is where the game's best moment lives — deadwood at nine, a knock on the table, and the choice between banking a small win now or shaping one more draw into Gin for the 25-point bonus. Knock carelessly and the CPU lays off onto your melds and undercuts you instead.
Rounds settle into a running scoreboard, first to 100 takes the match, and your match record and best hand persist between visits. For card players who like their luck folded inside arithmetic, this is the good stuff.
Where Gin Rummy comes from
Gin Rummy was created in 1909 by Elwood Baker, a New York bridge player, and his son Graham Baker, who is said to have named it after the drink as a play on 'rummy'; the card historian David Parlett regards the Mexican game Conquian as its forerunner. It stayed a New York game until 1941, when it became a Hollywood craze and spread across the United States, and a 1947 survey found that as many people had learned gin during the Second World War as had learned pinochle, cribbage, poker and bridge combined. This version is 360 PlayZone's own take on the classic. Source.
Inside Gin Rummy: what we checked
The numbers below come from Gin Rummy's own source code, and the screenshots are from our own test run of the game (20 October 2026).
- You may knock when your deadwood is 10 or less. Aces count 1, face cards 10, and runs are ace-low only, so A-2-3 is a run but Q-K-A is not.
- The Deadwood chip always shows the best possible arrangement of your hand, and the game also arranges both hands optimally when a round ends, so you never lose points to a meld you missed.
- A plain knock scores the difference in deadwood. Gin (zero deadwood) scores 25 plus the opponent's deadwood and big gin (all 11 cards melded) 31 plus it. If the defender ties or beats the knocker's deadwood it is an undercut: the defender scores the difference plus 25.
- After a knock the defender lays off cards onto the knocker's melds automatically, in whatever way lowers their deadwood most. After a gin there is no lay-off.
- When only two cards are left in the stock the round is a dead hand: nobody scores and the next round is dealt with the dealer swapped. The match goes to the first player to reach 100.
- The computer will not knock early on a very low count: with 2 or less deadwood in the first five turns of a round (both players' turns counted) while the stock is over 14, it plays on to try for gin. A match in progress is saved in this browser and resumes when you return, together with your lifetime match, round and gin counts.
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How to play Gin Rummy
Each turn, draw one card from the stock or the discard pile, then discard one. Collect melds: runs of three or more in one suit, or sets of the same rank — unmatched cards are deadwood, counted at face value with pictures worth ten. When your deadwood is 10 or less you may knock to end the round; reaching zero is Gin and scores a 25-point bonus. After a knock the hands are revealed, the defender lays off cards onto your melds, and the deadwood difference is scored — first to 100 wins the match.
Controls
Desktop: click the stock or discard pile to draw, click a card then the pile to discard, K knocks, arrow keys select, M mutes. Touch: tap a pile to draw, tap a card then the discard pile to throw it — double-tap or drag works too.
Tips & tricks
- Knock early. A first-chance knock at eight or nine deadwood usually beats waiting for Gin, because every extra turn is a chance for the CPU to knock first or slip under you.
- Watch what the CPU takes from the pile, not what it throws. A picked-up jack of spades means jacks and nearby spades are now dangerous discards for you.
- Prefer middle cards early. A six connects to more possible runs than a king does, and high deadwood is what turns one bad knock into a 30-point swing.
- Before you knock, check what your melds offer for layoffs. Knocking with an open-ended run lets the defender shed deadwood onto it — sometimes right into an undercut.
Frequently asked questions
Does Gin Rummy save my progress?
Partly. Gin Rummy keeps a running win/loss tally and your settings in this browser's local storage; there is no level progress to save. Nothing is uploaded and no account is involved — clearing your browser data is what resets it.
Is Gin Rummy unblocked at school or work?
Gin Rummy is a plain web page of about 63 KB — no plugin, no installer, no app store — so it loads on a Chromebook or a locked-down school or office laptop the same way any other page does, and the whole game arrives in one short download. Whether it opens comes down to your network's filter rather than the game itself.
Who made Gin Rummy?
Gin Rummy was built in-house by the 360 PlayZone team using open web technology (HTML5), which is why it runs instantly without any download.
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