Rummikub
My favorite game
Rummikub is a tile-based game for 2 to 6
players, combining elements of the card game rummy and mahjong. There
are 106 tiles in the game, including
104 numbered tiles (valued 1 to 13 in four
different colors, two copies of each) and
two jokers . Players have 14 or 16 tiles
initially and take turns putting down tiles from their racks into sets
(groups or runs) of at least three, drawing a tile if they cannot play.
In the Sabra version (the most common and popular), the first player
to use all their tiles scores a positive score based on the total of
the other players' hands, while the losers get negative scores.
An important feature of the game is that players can work with the
tiles that have already been played.