Hollywood gin

How Hollywood scoring works

Hollywood gin is a way of scoring, not a change to the play. You keep three games going at once on one scoresheet:

• Your first win is scored in Game 1.
• Your second win is scored in Games 1 and 2.
• Your third and later wins are scored in all three games.
• Each player is counted separately. Each game ends when a player reaches 100 in it, and from then on wins only go into the games still open. A player who had no score in a game that ended starts in the next open game.

Each game is settled like a normal game: game bonus 100 (200 for a shutout) and 20 per hand won in that game. The match ends when all three games are over. These rules follow rummy-games.com and the description of the 1942 laws on Wikipedia.

House rules you may meet

• Many Hollywood players use 25 for gin, undercut and box bonuses.
• Some keep starting a new game whenever one ends, so there are always three games running.

Print the Hollywood scoresheet to play with real cards.

See all gin rummy variants or play the standard game.