Interesting concept. It makes the low cards valuable because they're more likely to be tossed, so you can pair or triple them up. There was a similar poker game

Interesting concept. It makes the low cards valuable because they're more likely to be tossed, so you can pair or triple them up. There was a similar poker game I used to play with friends. This is similar to how, in Gin, face cards can be useful because they're the ones that an opponent is likely to toss early because their deadwood count (penalty to you if unmelded) is so high. Kings are usually crappy, but if you have a pair and an opponent tosses one (which he will if he can't do anything with it) you now have a meld.