[Card Game]: Mystery Rummy Case No. 1: Jack the Ripper, reviewed by ShannonA (4/5)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/9/9872.phtml

Shannon Appelcline's Summary:

An excellent expansion on the basic concept of Rummy that allows for real strategic play. Highly recommended for people who enjoy traditional card games.

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Post originally by Jon at 2003-11-20 15:59:31
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I've heard this works best with 2 players, ok with 3, and not so good with 4. Is that your experience also?

Post originally by Shannon Appelcline at 2003-11-20 17:53:04
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I've played 6-12 games with 2 players, and it works quite well. Jack gets away pretty rarely because you usually don't go through the whole deck, and that lowers the strategic content a little bit, but it's otherwise great.

I've just played one game with 4 players, and it went pretty slowly, but I think that was partially because of the players. We never got to the end of the two deck shuffles, instead someone always went out. Jack got away about 1 time in 3, which made that strategic play much more important.

Overall, I'd say the game has some flaws at both the 2 and 4 player level, but overall works at both ends of the player spectrum.

I've never played it with 3.