Gin - Rummy for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By algoltzman

  Beginning Introduction into Gin

  The game is a decent practice for beginning or experienced Gin players. The emphasis on the play is knocking, which is based on having 10 or less points. In actual play, the card that is turned up determines the amount that you can knock with. When you knock, if you have less points than the opponent, you subract their points exceeding the points in your cards you cannot meld in either runs or three or four of a kind. The opponents cards can be added to your melds and you can be undercut. A Gin or an undercut is worth 25 points to which you add the opponents excess points.

  
  
• By One Tough "Pone"

  Glad I got this game

  I am happy to find this great GIN RUMMY game. I have not played against another person for so long that I forgot how it is played. After two hands, it all came back to me. Action is fine, smooth and at a nice pace. Going full screen though cuts off the very top of the play field including half of the opponent’s cards. Instead I manually stretch diagnonally. That is the only problem I find.

  
  
• By choose another for me

  Stupid. Opponent gets low no matter what.

  Normal strategy in gin rummy dictates that you put together matched cards or runs, while discarding unmatched cards (high cards first) so as not to get caught with them should the opponent gin first. In this game, the opponent discards ALL cards 10 and higher, even when it already has 2 of that card or even a book of 3 of that card. Note that the opponent, in the rare occasion when it wins a hand, NEVER has a book of 3 cards 10 or higher. At the beginning of a hand, if the opponent has, for example, 2 Jacks, and you discard a Jack, the opponent NEVER picks up your Jack to make a book. Note that the opponent ALWAYS discards cards 10 or higher, even when your actions make it obvious that you are holding those cards. I see no way to change any of that in game preferences. It’s stupid, I tell ya. Stupid.

  
  
• By steelhead11

  Gin playing

  You have to understand gin to play it a bit. The game do walk you through most of it. Just remember you don’t have to Pass, unless you don’t have any good hands to play. Gin is not so easy to get but you do have the option to knock which will help you on winning. Good luck for all You gunners

  
  
• By Cham_ATX

  Fun, but dumb, slow and unbelievably power-hungry

  This game is fun, and I've spent (wasted) a lot more time than I'd care to admit by playing it. But it is annoyingly slow: animations are time-consuming and after a while, they are just pointless annoyances, and you cannot disable them. The AI for the computer player is far too predictable and simple-minded, so it's rather easy to win most of the time with a fairly simple strategy of holding higher cards for the first 5-7 turns. I'm now uninstalling this app for one critical reason -- the app EATS power. I've never had anything on my MBP that drains the battery as fast as running this app! There is no reason for it -- the animations do not need to be there and should be optional. But even if they aren't optional, there is no justification for how much power they consume. If you play this game for a full hour, it will drain a MBP with a healthy battery from full to near emergency shutdown!

  
  

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