2–6 players
Kosovar fourteen-card rummy for 2 to 6 players, with two packs and four jokers. Open with 51 points, lay cards off on anyone's combinations, buy jokers back from the table — or go out all at once without opening for a hunt. Seven rounds; the lowest total wins.
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Zhol is the rummy played around tables in Kosovo and Albania: fourteen cards each, two packs and four jokers, and an opening that has to be worth at least 51 points. Draw, build sets and runs, open, then sell your cards onto everyone's combinations until you can throw your last one — or wait, and go out all at once without opening for a hunt that costs the whole table double. Seven rounds; the lowest total wins.
If you have played Rummy you know the bones: draw, discard, sets and runs. Zhol adds the 51-point opening that rises with every opening after it, laying off on other players' cards, buying a joker back by giving the card it stands for, and the hunt — going out in one go before anyone sees your hand.
Two to six. It is dealt from two packs plus four jokers.
The first time you lay cards on the table your combinations together must be worth at least 51 points — numbers their value, aces and face cards ten, a joker whatever card it stands for. Each opening raises the bar for the players still closed to that opening plus one.
Going out in a single turn without having opened before, with no help from the table — no discard picked up and nothing laid off. The hunter scores -140, anyone who never opened pays 200, and everyone else pays double their hand. The card under the deck can only ever be taken for a hunt.
There are four, and each stands for any card, keeping its place once it is on the table. Hold the card a joker stands for in a run and you can swap it for the joker; in a set you have to complete all four suits. A joker still in your hand at the close costs 25.
The closer scores -40, players who never opened pay 100, and everyone else pays the cards in their hand. After seven rounds the lowest total wins.