The people of south India
play this rummy game especially the people of Chennai. It varies from
the traditional Indian rummy game. The discarding methods of the wipe resembles the
rummy 500. The players needed to play this game is from 2 to
6 uses the 52 card deck in the wipe game.
Like other rummy game the dealer deals 13 cards to each player, after
dealing the cards the bottom of the remaining deck faces down and the player
picks the 13cards from the stock pile. During this deal with more than
one deck if the player gets the three or , more doubles (that means a pair of
identical cards), The player declares the game .Then the dealer again deals
with the game.
After dealing the cards the dealer reveals the card
under the stock pile, that card is the negative joker. Because all the cards of
same value considered as jokers along with the printed joker.Then the dealer
picks the card from the card from the top of the closed stock pile and place it
to the next stock pile which has been opened.The turn passes to the person left
of the dealer.
Like Indian rummy in the wipe the player needs to make the sequence and sets.in sequence the player collects the cards
belong to the same suit in the order.the ace considered as either low or having
the highest value but not the same at the time. The set varied by it needs
three or four cards of the same rank in different suits. If the player gets the
pure sequence with sets melds the cards.two identical melds are not allowed in
this game.the meld needs at least a minimum of three cards of each set or
sequences. Three printed joker sequence are not allowed to meld in the wipe
game.
The name wipe given to this
game is because the cards are mostly taken from the discarded pile to make
melds. Wiping termed as wipe to this vazhushal game.