Rummy Hands

Hoyle is the time-honored authority on game rules. You can search on line but you can buy a book in any bookstore. That might be good for the kids to look at - they can learn the value of books without you having to supervise them on the computer all the time.

And I think it's great that you are connecting the kids to Grandma!

A site I love for all things card games is hoylegaming.com.

I personally don't know, but I would recommend Google. You can find out anything on Google.

We never called it Hollywood rummy, but you're only missing same suit runs from that list. Gin rummy, you hold all seven cards and drop all at once. Rummy 500 you put down sets as you get them and spread out the draw pile so that everything back to the card you want must be picked up. The round is over when the last set is laid and a single discard card thrown down by the first player to go out. Sets are tallied, the losing players subtract remaining cards in their hands from their sets, and rounds are played until someone reaches 500 points. There are some other detailed rules, but that's the gist. I'm sure you can find tutorials on line.

This might help:
http://www.ehow.com/how_###-###-####_play-hollywood-rummy...

L.,

that sounds like Gin Rummy to me. Thanks for bringing back a great memory for me!! I used to play Canasta and Gin Rummy with my mom!!

I don't remember the point system. I found a score sheet for you and two different links for rules and scoring...

http://ginrummy.com/scoring.html
http://www.printablepaper.net/preview/Gin_Rummy_Score_Sheet
http://www.ehow.com/how_###-###-####_score-gin-rummy.html

Have a blast!!!