Smart Rummy app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 6320 ratings )
Games Entertainment Card Strategy
Developer: Pramod Shankar
2.99 USD
Current version: 6.1, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 04 Nov 2008
App size: 28.74 Mb

Welcome to Smart Rummy - An Intelligent Gin Rummy Video Game. Card players love this fast paced game of Rummy. A game of memory, card sense, skill and luck, it provides quick action as the situations change rapidly. Smart Rummy is ideal for people who enjoy card games and relish competition. You can play a few hands in minutes or spend hours immersed in competition.

Smart Rummy offers choice of six opponents with two levels of playing skill and different styles of play to give you a variety of competition. Perfect for beginners as well as experienced players, Smart Rummy can sharpen your Gin Rummy skills and card memorization techniques with fast action and fun.

The game table displays dealt hands, opponent, knock count, and the deck and discard piles. The game uses animations and colorful playing cards for visual appeal. It keeps track of scores and lets you set the winning game point limit. When the hand ends, the score is automatically figured and recorded. A Preferences screen gives you several playing options. You can choose to expose the opponents hand to observe the playing style. Cards can be moved using buttons, tapping or dragging. Smart Rummy comes with built in scrollable guide pages for easy reference with navigation buttons. Scores, Preferences and Guide views can be accessed using simple tap or swipe gestures.

Smart Rummy is based on the scientific Gin Rummy principles from the paperback book, How To Win At Gin Rummy - Playing for Fun and Profit, by Pramod Shankar, PhD. This book is a simple and easy-to-read guide with a thorough study of Gin Rummy. It provides the basics, simple tactics, 10 Golden Rules of play, advanced strategies, and odds for card plays and combinations. It can help players of all levels from beginner to advanced and is a must read guide for serious Gin Rummy money players.

This App is configured for iPhone and iPad, has HD graphics, sounds and ability to sort hands by moving cards around. It saves your set preferences and scores to continue the same game later, and keeps track of maximum wins and losses. It allows unlimited Undo of moves by simple triple tapping the screen as you practice to refine your playing skills.

All these features provide a unique gin rummy playing experience, fun practice and opportunity to develop and practice new strategies.

Buy it today and start having fun!

Pros and cons of Smart Rummy app for iPhone and iPad

Smart Rummy app good for

Good game worth the money...but needs to add the ability to sort your own hand as u see fit. As the gameplay sits right now, your hand is dealt to u and then its pre arranged for u and u cannot change the sets and runs that they put together for u. This is unrealistic bc although I may be dealt three jacks I shouldnt be forced to use them as one of my sets, I may want to use one of those jacks in a run. This should be addressed in an update then it will be worth 5 stars to me.
Good Game if you like cards but I have all the same issues others have requested... And for the price you would thing there would be so much more too it... I cant wait to see what they do to upgrades......
I was apprehensive after the other reviews, but I love this game already! Worth the money... 2nd review: I still like the game, but would love to have stats for games played. For example: number of games won/lost; high score, etc.
Not sure why most of the time I cannot choose my draw card! It automatically chooses it for me so that I have no option to choose from discards while my opponent can! Just figured out what was going on... If the phone is tilted to the left or right it automatically draws from the pile on that side. Would be great to have that fixed. Other than that, I like the game!
Great game to pass time and have fun. Whenever I have 2 minutes or more while waiting at the train station, in an office or some other place, I enjoy this game. Fun and competition. Highly rcommended.

Some bad moments

I bought this app and it will not install on the ipod touch. Itunes says this app is not for this device.
Nice game but needs some work with scoring and card alignment, so far. The scoring is so bad that it makes the game un-enjoyable.
This is a good start but I would definitely make some changes. The ability to sort your own hand would top the list. Tracking of previous games like wins and losses would be nice also.
Improvements needed: be able to sort hand, save game, score should be on play screen, lifetime stats, advance to different levels.
Please fix all issues described by other reviewers. Need to be able to deactivate the accelerameter, have more accurate way to discard, and be able to sort cards manually. If those things happen, then 5 stars.
Almost a great game with two big exceptions. It freezes up on a regular basis and you have to "look" for the score on a separate page. Kills this app for me. If there was a way to get my money back I would be doing that.

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