Gin Rummy

Gin Rummy is a single player is a single player card game in which the player plays against the computer. MeggieSoft did produce two versions of this game, a 16-bit game that was for Win 3.x and a 32-bit version that was for Windows 95 and above. Support for the 16-bit version was discontinued in 2001 and now all MeggieSoft games are 32-bit games.

Gin Rummy is a popular card came in which the player's are dealt ten cards each. Put simply the object of the game is to make sets of cards of the same rank or runs of cards in the same suit. Players alternately take a new card from either the deck or the discard pile into their hand. If it does not fit it is discarded, if it improves the hand it is retained and another card is discarded. The player who is able to dispose of all of their cards wins the hand and scores points, the first to score a predetermined number of points wins the game.

The current implementation of MeggieSoft's Gin Rummy, Version 2013 Build 130301, has the basic Gin Rummy game but can be configured to play the Oklahoma, Elwood or Double Gin variants. It has customisable round bonuses and alternate scoring methods, supports on-line play, has an extensive game configuration menu, and an on-line update function. Using A,K,Q,J to represent the Ace, King, Queen, Jack is an Anglo-American standard, this game caters for other standards/languages such as Danish which uses E,K,D,B, Dutch which uses A,H,V,B, Finnish which uses the numbers 1,13,12 & 11, plus French, Spanish, German, Italian, Norwegian & Swedish.

Other features include a spoken tutorial with a selection of voices using Microsoft's Text-To-Speech, in-game music and sound effects, and the ability for the player to alter the hand they have been dealt.