Vazhushal or Wipe a South Indian Rummy Game

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.