Strategy tips

Here are some strategy tips that you can use to improve your own game of Rummi. They will work for other Rummy type games too, e.g. when you are playing a real life, non-computerized game with cards or Rummikub tiles.

Most of the following tips work best only in certain game situations, and some tips even are contradictory. You'll have to experiment: use these suggestions in your own games and see which ones work best for you in which game situation.

	Play as many tiles as you can. This will push the game forward, the other players will be able to play more of their tiles, and you will have more ways to combine your tiles in your next turn. And, if you would have kept tiles back for your next turn instead, the situation may have changed so you might not be able to play them any more.
	Play some tiles, but not all. Delay some possible moves to your next turn so you won't have to take a new tile from the pool then.
	Don't play at all, even if you can. So you won't give away opportunities to your opponents, especially when they have only a few tiles left in their hand.
	Keep jokers in your hand. By playing your jokers, you only give the other players more possible ways to combine their tiles.
	Don't keep jokers in your hand for too long. If you loose the game, they count as 30 points.
	Play jokers soon. They will push the game forward as other players will use the joker to combine with new tiles.
	Replace a joker with its actual tile. Then you can re-use the joker and combine it with more of your own tiles.
	Don't replace a joker with its actual tile. Especially useful in a game where the replacement must come from your hand. When both replacement tiles are already played elsewhere, the joker is fixed and can't be used by your opponents any more.
	In games where you can only add to a group with a joker, add tiles to such a group rather than playing them in a new group. That way they can't be used by others to play combinations with.
	Don't play ever, at all. Just keep drawing more tiles from the pool, until at some stage you have so many tiles that you can play them all at once and you win. Caution: if other players follow the same strategy, this may backfire on you! Note: Many players don't like it when their opponents follow this strategy, because it takes much of the challenge out of the game. If you do this too often, people might not want to play with you any more.

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