To ask if you can name this card game?

[FlamedToACrisp]

The object is simply to get rid of your cards, and catch your opponents with as many points as possible. You start with 7 cards and a face-down deck of the rest in the middle. You play it like rummy, trying to get runs or 3/4 of a kind, but you put them down as you go, and other people can add to yours, for example if you put down 4,5,6 of hearts, someone else can add 7 of hearts when it's their turn, as long as they have put down a run or set already.

You pick up at the beginning and discard at the end of your go, but when you discard, you overlap the cards so you can see the discard pile. When it's your go, you can pick up any in the discard pile but you have to take all the cards on top of it as well.

I'm sure the name is a long word, but I can't remember it! Help!

Switch?

canasta?

@timesareachanging

Switch?

That doesn't sound like Switch (or what i know of Switch) you don't need to get runs in Switch, just get rid of your cards

Gin rummy! I really like it.

Dont know but husband says his family play something very like this but with 10 cards and a thinker and called it Coocan (Kukan?)

@Tanaqui

Gin rummy! I really like it.

Oh I always thought Rummy and Gin Rummy were the same game, interesting. Turns out I've been playing Rummy but calling it Gin Rummy all these years

Yes gin rummy

Nope - none of the above - or at least, that's not the name I'm trying to remember.

I can’t spell it but Kaluki?

We play a game very similar to this. We call it Benny's but you have 13 cards not seven and a few more rules such as not being able to put runs down unless they initially add up to 40. Great game I love it.

Beanie?

Whist?

@FlamedToACrisp

Nope - none of the above - or at least, that's not the name I'm trying to remember.

It's sounds like it is if you read the rules

My DD and I play this all the time it's her fave!

She just calls it 'Pick Up'

Go fish was similar

I used to play this with my gran, any cards you played were scored and added up at the end. If you were left holding cards, their value would be deducted from your score. We would play for hours.

She called it pookie.

Racing demon?

It does sound like gin rummy... now I want to know what it is!

You're right, @Monr0e now I think about it, that was the way we scored it.

It sounds like Australian Rummy .

but we didn't call it pookie.

Diminishing wist?

It's gin rummy

Sounds like a game my sister calls blackjack (not the real 21/blackjack) do certain cards make you miss a go, change direction like UNO?

New Market?