Gin Rummy - Free Online Gin Rummy: Knock, Go Gin, and Undercut Head-to-Head

Each player is dealt 10 cards. On your turn you draw one card, from the face-down stock or the face-up discard pile, then discard one. You are collecting melds: runs of 3 or more consecutive cards in one suit, or sets of 3 or 4 cards of the same rank. When your unmelded cards (deadwood) total 10 points or less, you can knock to end the hand and score the difference. On Foony Gin Rummy, the first player to reach the target score wins the match.

Knocking ends the hand. After drawing, if the cards outside your melds add up to 10 points or less, discard and knock: both hands are revealed, your opponent lays off what they can onto your melds, and you score the difference between the two deadwood counts. Foony Gin Rummy shows your deadwood total live and offers the knock button whenever it is legal, so you never have to count by hand.

Going gin means knocking with zero deadwood: all 10 cards melded. It scores your opponent's entire deadwood plus a 25-point bonus, and nothing can be laid off against it. Big gin is rarer still: all 11 cards meld right after you draw, ending the hand with no discard for a 31-point bonus. Both are scored automatically on Foony Gin Rummy, and each has its own achievement.

Deadwood is every card not part of a meld. Aces count 1, number cards their face value, and jacks, queens, and kings count 10 each. Aces are low, so ace-2-3 is a run but queen-king-ace is not. Foony Gin Rummy arranges your melds optimally and displays the exact deadwood count at all times, the same math the scoring uses.

If your opponent knocks but your deadwood, after laying off onto their melds, is equal to or lower than theirs, you undercut them: you score the difference plus a 25-point bonus instead. Undercuts are the main reason knocking early at a high count is risky. Foony Gin Rummy computes the best possible layoffs for the defender automatically, so every undercut that should happen does.

In straight rummy you lay melds on the table as you go, and the hand runs until someone goes out completely. Gin rummy keeps every card hidden until a knock: you build the whole hand in secret, may end the hand early at 10 or fewer deadwood, and score bonuses for gin and undercuts. That makes gin faster, more tactical, and the classic head-to-head choice. Foony Gin Rummy plays standard gin rummy rules.

Create a room on Foony Gin Rummy and share the invite link: your friend joins from any modern browser with no app to install. Set the target score (50, 100, or 150) and the turn timer, and the match starts as soon as both seats are filled. If nobody is around, add a bot instead.

Gin rummy is a 2-player game, but Foony Gin Rummy rooms hold up to 100 people: extra players queue behind a seat, share that seat's hand, and rotate in, so a full room still deals everyone in eventually. Spectators can watch and chat while they wait.

Yes. Foony Gin Rummy has 4 bot difficulty tiers, picked once per room: Easy, Casual, Skilled, and Expert. A solo room starts you head-to-head against one bot. Solo games award reduced XP that scales with the bot difficulty you choose.

Yes. Foony Gin Rummy costs nothing and drops you straight into a lobby, no account needed. Signing up is optional: it adds cross-device progress, leaderboard ranks, and achievements, but guests get every mode and every bot tier.

No. Foony Gin Rummy deals every hand in the browser you already have, on desktop, tablet, or phone: nothing to install, nothing to update. That also keeps it playable on school and office networks that ban game installers.

If you want real head-to-head play, Foony Gin Rummy is built for it: invite-link rooms for friends, standard knock, gin, big gin, and undercut scoring counted by the book, automatic meld arrangement so you never miscount deadwood, 4 bot tiers for solo practice, and leaderboards. It is free in your browser with no signup.