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(4-8 players) – A modern card game simulating scientific research, as players (“scientists”) conduct experiments to determine the rule governing play. Players try to get rid of cards by discarding them, but the “rule” that allows legal play is invented by the dealer and is unknown to the players, and they must try to figure out the rule by deducing it from legal plays.Rummy (2-6 players) – A classic card game, in which players draw and discard cards, trying to get “melds” that typically consist of sets of the same values or runs of consecutive values. Many variants exist, including Gin Rummy, which is an excellent game and appears later on this list, as well as some commercially published games like the Mystery Rummyseries. Contract Rummy (3-5 players) also developed from Rummy, and adds the complication that in each round players have to fulfil a different contract, which is a fixed combination of sets or runs, that they must have before they can meld. A version of Contract Rummy was published commercially under the name Phase Ten.