Okey Wood – Black Pearl

Okey Game which is famous in Turkey is a group of matching-tiles game notable for similar gameplay based on matching tiles of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build melds which can be either sets (three or four of a kind of the same rank) or runs (three or more sequential cards of the same suit). If a player discards a tile, making a run in the discard pile, it may not be taken up without taking all cards below the top one. The Mexican game of Conquian is considered to be ancestral to all rummy games, which itself is derived from a Chinese game called Khanhoo. The rummy principle of drawing and discarding with a view to melding appears in Chinese card games at least in the early 19th century, and perhaps as early as the 18th century. Rummy games are popular in India. It is likely that Indian Rummy is an extension of gin Rummy and 500 Rim, which originated from the United States.