- Txintxon
Txintxon (also spelled "txin-txon", "txintxom", "tchimtchom", "tchintchom" or "tchintchon") is a
card game played inSpain ,Cape Verde and other places. It is a close variant ofGin Rummy (perhaps drawing the first part of its name from a deturpation of "gin"), and shares the same objective: making sets of matching cards (groups of the same rank or runs). Txintxon is the name inCape Verdean creole ["Bisca and TxinTxon ... are ancient Cape Verdian card games". http://capocaley.blogspot.com/2008/07/sr-antonio-rip.html] and also in Basque [http://www.ludoteka.com/txintxon.html] . In Spanish the name is spelled Chinchón.Rules
The rules of the game are very similar to those of Gin Rummy: seven cards are given to each player, and the remaining of the deck is laid in the table face down to form the stock. The top card of this pile is then turned face up and laid beside it to start the discard pile. The players look at and sort their cards, and then play by turns.
Each turn consists of a draw and a discard:
* One card is taken from the top of either the stock (face down) pile or the discard (face up) pile, and added to the player's hand.
* The player can then try to make combinations in their hand with the new card.
* After that, one card must be discarded from the player's hand and placed on top of the discard pile face up, so that the player always has seven cards in your hand.Once a player has enough sets, they may decide to meld their cards (laying off their hand on the table), and the round ends. That can be done when the player thinks that the value of their unmatched cards (called deadwood in Rummy) is less than that of the other players. Each of the players score penalty points according to the cards left in their hand. If a player has no unmatched cards (that is, they go Rummy/Gin), they earn a bonus of -10 points. A player automatically wins the game if they manage to make a sequence of seven cards (called txintxon).
When someone reaches 100 or more, the game ends, and player with the lowest score wins.
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