Sorting the cards in your hand

Sorting by rank

After your cards are dealt to you at the beginning of a game, the computer automatically sorts your cards by rank - your cards are ordered from lowest to highest. (For information on the ordering of cards in Gin Rummy -- like whether aces rank high or low -- refer to "Point value/ranking of cards in Gin Rummy".)

After you play a couple of turns, however, you might want to resort your hand by rank. Simple select "Sort by Rank" in the "Actions" menu.

Sort by Rank

 

"Sort by Rank" is handy to use if you have any sets of 3 or 4 of a kind.

Here is an example of a hand sorted by rank:

A hand sorted by value

A hand sorted by rank

 

Sorting by suit

When you sort by rank, you don't see all the cards of one suit together in one spot. Thus, if you have a run in spades, it is more difficult to see when sorted by rank than by suit. "Sort by Suit" will fix this and sort your cards by suit, and by rank within the suit.

Simply choose "Sort by Suit" from the "Actions" menu to sort your hand by suit.

Sort by suit

Sort by suit

Here is the same hand of cards from above, but sorted by suit:

A hand sorted by suit

Sorted by suit


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