If this is a new game, the loser of the previous game starts. “The game progresses with the player or the opponent starting their turn. This card forms the beginning of the discard pile. The top card is turned face up on the table. The remaining cards form the stock and are placed face down by the table. “Ten cards are dealt to you and ten to your opponent. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t find specific information on the game of Gin Rummy online! I used Google to search for Gin Rummy Rules Hoyle and got oodles of matches, including a useful page at MeggieSoft Games: Not good.Ī bit of Google detective work reveals that “Hoyle’s Rules of Games” hasn’t had its copyright expire, so in fact it would be quite surprising to find a free copy of it online. In fact, i like the project so much, I actually have an homage to it with my own Intuitive Reading Library.Ī quick search at Project Gutenberg for books with the title word ‘Hoyle’, however, shows that there aren’t any matches. One of my favorite online sites of this nature is the amazing Project Gutenberg, which has over 16,000 electronic books free for the downloading.