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500 Rummy: Pleasant Rummy is for children on up. 5000 Rummy: Excellent Rummy is for teenagers safe to say on up. And 10,000 Rummy: Sublime Rummy is for adults safe to say.

So the next 2 images line up properly, you may need to view this page with a desktop browser's window-width at 100% (by clicking the browser's maximize box at the upper right, or View > Full Screen) and for the page window you may need to click its maximize box at its upper right. You should then see what looks like the (earlier) mini-book having been unfolded, with the back of the mini-book on the left and the front of the mini-book on the right. There's no mini-book anymore.

The earlier mini-book (7" by 8 1/2") had 28 pages total with no pictures (except the cover had pictures). And the print was really small. So you needed to read really small print.

You usually play with 2 "standard English" packs of playing cards of 52 cards each shuffled together (your own cards). In the USA and England, this just means 2 standard 52-card packs. If a game is played with 104 cards, instead of 52 cards, then you would shuffle 2 standard packs together. (The packs should be identical in back design and color. Bridge-size cards (around 3 1/2 by 2 1/4") may be better to use than poker-size cards (around 3 1/2 by 2 1/2") because of melding space and that they're easier to hold if holding a lot.)
... The mini-book cover had "nonstandard" cards on it which made the cover look nice. Cards like these could be used. The cards on the cover were drawn by an artist named Bonnie Blue.

Again, you need 2 "standard English" 52-card packs (of your own).

A card deck was designed for 10,000 Rummy: Sublime Rummy. The artist was Bonnie Blue who is mentioned on the above mini-book cover. Some of these cards, her cards, are on the front and back of the cover.

It was an all-round double card deck. It consisted of 104 cards which are needed to play this game. And it had 4 extra (Mother Nature) cards which could be used anyway you wanted. They could of been used like replacement cards in case any other cards got damaged or lost, or like jokers if you were playing another game.

There were 8 special rummy cards designed too which could of been added to the deck which would have changed the course of play.



Red and black are good colors for the standard English pack of playing cards since they're sort of a harsh combination. Green is one of the two basic colors for Bonnie's deck of playing cards since, in a sense, it's the most neutral color of the standard 6 basic colors. In the same sense, anywhere from medium-to-dark, basic green is a neutral green. Medium-to-dark, basic greens can be considered the most neutral colors.

The back of a playing card above is from "The World of Playing Cards"--over a 130 page site--courtesy of Simon Wintle who is the webmaster of that site and of "The English Playing Card Society." The back of this card with more card backs of finely dressed ladies from the 1930's can be seen on WOPC on the Waddington's "Barribal" Series, 1933 page, designs by William Henry Barribal. This page leads to other fantastic, old cards by William Barribal. And Ben Bornstein on his website of Artists In Playing Cards wrote, about William Bornstein, "He specialized in beautiful women..." and wrote "Painting by Barribal." by a duplicate image of this playing-card back. Ben Bornstein also wrote, about William Barribal, "...painted until he was 83 years of age." By what Ben Bornstein wrote this playing-card back could have been originally painted not forthe backs of playing cards.

For some history of Waddington's, click Waddington's a brief history.

To see a lot of Waddington's old cards, you can click from the A Triumph of British Enterprise[,] John Waddington Ltd Trade Brochure[,] Our 1933 Range page.

To see 3 old circular-shaped cards by Waddington's, click Waddington's a brief history or 3 circular cards by Waddington's.

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