Play Rummy
– From 2 to 4 players.
– Choose the AI level of opponents.
– Number of cards dealt to each player (from 7 to 14).
– Number of jokers (from 0 to 4).
– Number of turns before being able to lay down a combination.
– Number of points required for the first meld.
– Sequence required or not for the first meld.
– Card taken from discard pile has to be played or can be kept.
– Final card to be discarded or played.
Legality
“Rummy has been declared by the courts of law to be a game of skill or mere skill. Games of skill or mere skill are excluded from the applicability of laws prohibiting betting and gambling (‘Betting and Gambling’ being a state subject under the Constitution of India) in all states to the exception of a few. However, the states of Assam and Orissa have not provided clear rulings on this matter and are thus ambiguous territories. Playing rummy online is also legal in India”
In 1957 the Supreme Court stated that prize competitions which involve substantial skill are business activities that are protected under Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution of India.
The Supreme Court of India in the year 1968 has ruled that rummy is a game of skills. This judgement has been relied and followed in many s ubsequent judgements. In 1996, the Supreme Court of India had also stated that
(i) competition where chances of success depends on significant degree of skill is not considered as ‘gambling’ and
(ii) despite the fact that there is an element of chance, rummy is preponderantly a game of skills and, thus, may be considered as a game of ‘mere skill’.
“Rummy, on the other hand, requires certain amount of skill because the fall of the cards has to be memorised and the building up of Rummy requires considerable skill in holding and discarding cards. We cannot, therefore, say that the game of Rummy is a game of entire chance. It is mainly and preponderantly a game of skill. The chance in Rummy is of the same character as the chance in a deal at a game of bridge.”
Is it legal to play rummy for cash on www.friendskrummy.com ?
The various Supreme Court rulings and the Gaming Acts of India imply the following:
Gaming or gambling means betting and wagering on games of chance.ƒ
Playing games of skill for cash does not constitute gambling.
Games of skill are exempt from the penal provisions of most gambling acts.
Rummy is a game of skill.
So yes, it is perfectly legal to play rummy for cash on friendskrummy.com as long as you are not playing from the states of Assam, Odisha, Telangana. In these states the Gaming Laws are less clear. As we get more clarity on the laws in these states, we might reconsider offering our services to residents of these states as well.
About Us
About friendskrummy.com
friendskrummy.com is an online rummy website, fully owned and operated by ROCKSTAR RUMMY CLOUD SPORT PRIVATE LIMITED. Our main purpose to promote Rummy as a professional game and create a community of skilled gamers. You can play our rummy game online 24×7 from your home, Internet Café or any location that has access to the Internet. You can create a valid account on our website and play free rummy games. With a vast experience of managing online multiplayer games, we believe in maintaining complete confidentiality of your information. So, create your account with us, join a Table and start playing online rummy games.
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The game plays well, looks good, and the options are nice, but the absence of sound in the app really takes away from the experience. Also, increasing difficulty seems to occasionally stack the deck to favor the AI. Across a few dozen games, the AIs have been given two and three round Gins multiple ...
Krishna, Gujarat
Enjoyable; good UI. AI difficulty may or may not be real. The AI makes mistakes on lower difficulty settings which I so far haven't seen at higher difficulty, so that's good. Overall, though, it just seems to give you crappier hands with lots of doubles, and makes melding harder, which is just artif...
Sanjay, Maharastra
Very good game play. You can change the settings to suit your preferences. The ads are not intrusive. Some you can close right away and others you can close in 5 seconds and sometimes there are none at all. There is nothing worse than ads interrupting your game in the middle of game play, or ads tha..
K Karnataka, Rishi