Rules of the game
   - BASIC RULES
In 500 Rum / Rummy500, 2-8 players can participate in the game. One deck of 52 cards (no jokers!) is used for a game including 2-4 players and two decks for a game of 5-8 players. At the start of each round each player is given 7 cards, although in games of just two players they receive 13 cards each.
The main object of the game is to make sets of cards with the ones in your hand and put them in the middle of the table. Points are then scored for the sets you have made.
For example if you have the 7 of Diamonds, 7 of Hearts and 7 of Clubs, and you puts these three "7s" into the middle, then you score 21 points. Kings, Queen and Jacks counts for 10 points per card so three Kings would score you 30 points. In addition to three "7s" or three Kings, players can also make "runs." A example of a run is a 5 Clubs, a 6 of Clubs and a 7 of Clubs. It is possible to make a run of cards up to in theory 13 cards in a row from the Ace to the King.
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  -  How to Win and Lose
In each hand a player scores points for the sets and runs he has made. When someone has managed to get rid of all his cards by making sets and putting them in the middle of the table, this marks the end of the hand.
At this point the scores are added up with (1) everyone getting points for the cards he has put in the middle and (2) everyone loses points for all the cards left in his hand.
This same scoring process occurs when no more cards are left in the deck. So at the end of the hand each player will be on a score and some may even have a negative score.
But this is not the end of the game but merely the end of the first hand and hence the first round. Further rounds occur until someone hits the big 500 Points and he is the winner. Obviously 2nd, 3rd and other places depends on the total score each player has when the winner hits 500.
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 -  Cards Moving Around
The play is all about the cards being moved around the table. Players throw away one card from their hand which they do not want and the player next to him has the option of picking that card up.
If he decides not to pick it up then he must pick up the next random card from the unused cards left in the deck. And then for each go, a player must discard one of his cards.
In 500 Rum, as opposed to Traditional Rummy, a player has the option to pick up any cards in the discarded pile and not just the card which the player next to him just discarded.
However after he takes the card of his choice from the discarded pile he must also pick up the other cards which had been discarded since that one.
