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Card games

Gin Rummy

Two-player ten-card gin, first to 100 — the friendliest card entry point.

App-owned estimate400–16002–2 playersTable seatNeeds real-match testing

How a game is set up

Formats, length and resource

Formats

  • Ten-card gin to 100
  • Knock limit 10

Typical length

45 / 60 / 90 minutes

Resource booked

Table seat

Scoring

points — e.g. 104-71

Equipment

  • Card decks
  • Score pads
  • Table marker

Typical venues

  • Café
  • Community centre
  • Hotel lounge

Physical layer

Portable MeetYourMatch kit — Portable game: the venue takes the official Meet Your Match playing-card kit and score pads, ID-tagged with a table marker.

How skill is estimated

App-owned estimate

Range

400 – 1600

Method

An openly app-owned estimate on a 1000 origin, updated once per completed match — never per hand.

What we capture

Winner and both final totals to at least 100; opponent confirms. Per-hand detail is optional.

How it updates

One update per completed match; a hand is never rated as a separate match.

First games

Four experience answers may optionally seed 600 / 800 / 1000 / 1200 (skip: 800). Unvalidated conventions, openly labelled.

Placement question

Can you complete a hand, identify valid melds, and score a knock or undercut without help? — four answers, an existing platform rating with source and date, or skip.

Honesty about the number

What this rating is, and what it isn't

Where no universal amateur scale exists, MeetYourMatch says so rather than inventing one.

Benchmark

No governing-body opponent-adjusted scale was found.

The recommendation is an explicitly app-owned number. It must not be called “gin points”, which would confuse a lasting skill number with the points scored in a hand.

Open decisions

Whether an openly app-owned scale is acceptable at all.

Status: Needs real-match testing.

Handicap: Points of start

Points of start, flagged and excluded from ratings.

Points of start, flagged on the match and excluded from ratings.

What it costs to play

Illustrative MeetYourMatch service fee for Gin Rummy: £5.40 per player, against a planned average of £4.50 per player per game.

The MeetYourMatch service fee covers matchmaking and booking coordination. Each player pays their own. The approved assumption is an average of £4.50 per player per game; actual per-game and per-city rates are still to be set, and the amounts shown here are illustrative demo prices. Anything the venue charges — table or court time, any minimum spend — is separate from this fee.

Illustrative price · not final

Where it could be played

Example venues for Gin Rummy

Example venue profiles · not live listings

Islington Chess Café

Café & board room · Islington

Twenty weighted sets, digital clocks and the best flat white on the network.

Chelsea Social Club

Members club · Chelsea

Card rooms with gin rummy tables, social poker nights and a quiet backgammon corner.

Clapham Games Room

Coworking & café · Clapham

Daytime desks, evening games. Popular with the lunchtime blitz crowd.

How venues & hosts fit in
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