RUMMIKUB TOURNAMENT

Monday, July 17, 2023 starting at 12:45 p.m.

To register or to volunteer for the tournament, please call 252-475-5635.

All players are welcome to join us for our first Baum Senior Center Rummikub Tournament,  which will start promptly at 1. Please arrive 15 minutes prior for table assignment and rule review. Once table assignments have been randomly drawn, late arrivals will not be allowed to compete. Tournament rules are available at the front desk, as we will not be playing by “Baum Senior Center Rules” for the tournament. There will be no age groups or gender divisions.

Standard Pressman Rules will be used, except for a revised Joker recycling rule. There are two Jokers that can be used as any other tile in a set, even if both those tiles have already been played. A Joker can be retrieved from a set by a player who replaces it during his/her turn with a tile of the same number and color from his/her own rack, but only if he/she has already laid down his/her initial meld, and only if he/she can immediately combine it with two or more tiles from his/her own rack to form a new set, in which case it can represent any other tile again.

A Joker can never be replaced by a tile already on the table, but if it is part of a group of three, it can be replaced by either of the missing colors. 

*Player time limits will be two minutes per turn, and players must wait until the turn after their initial meld to play on or with other sets. The Baum Senior Center will provide the tiles, racks and stop watches. Volunteers are needed to time the games.