Chinchón
Spain’s rummy with a 40-card deck. Close when your loose cards are 5 or less, and seven in a row in one suit wins outright. 2–4 players.
How to play Chinchón
- 1A 40-card deck: ace to 7 plus jack, queen and king in each suit, with no 8s, 9s or 10s. Everyone gets seven cards and one card starts the discard pile.
- 2On your turn, draw from the stock or take the top discard, then discard one card (not the one you just took).
- 3Melds are three or four cards of one rank, or three or more in a row in one suit. With no 8s, 9s or 10s, the 7 runs straight into the jack (6-7-J-Q). Aces are low only.
- 4Instead of discarding, you may close the hand when the cards left out of your melds add up to 5 or less. Aces count 1, 2 to 7 their number, and picture cards 10.
- 5When someone closes, everyone lays out their best melds, adds what they can to the closer's melds, and adds the cards left over to their score.
- 6Close with every card melded and you take 10 off your score instead. Close with all seven cards in a row in one suit and that's chinchón: you win the whole game on the spot.
- 7Go over 100 points and you're out. The last player left wins.
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