Tommy's Gin Rummy

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Tommy's Toys

Tommy's Toys was a company that produced over 200 shareware games between 1985 and 1998. All of the games were written in QuickBasic and were designed to run in DOS. It was a one man operation where all the games were developed by T. L. Winslow who stopped making games in 1998 to start a new career as a novelist. The company was known for its tag line "Tommy's Toys - Programmed by Aliens from Outer Space".

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Tommy's Gin Rummy implements the game invented in 1909 by e. T. Baker of the knickerbocker whist club of New York, with automatic sorting of your hand to give the best score.
You play against the computer. Your hand is displayed at the top of the screen, the computer's under it.
At program startup you are given the option of playing with open hands, meaning that you can see the computer's hand but it can't see yours. On the first play, non-dealer either takes the upcard or refuses it; if he refuses, dealer has the same option.
If dealer also refuses, non-dealer must draw from the top of the deck, giving him 11 cards.
The object of the game is to form your hand into "matched sets":
1. 3 or 4 cards of the same rank ("flat")
2. 3 or more cards of the same suit in sequence ("straight")
Cards that do not form part of any matched set are called unmatched cards (or deadwood) and are penalized with a point value (pv).