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Liverpool Rummy score sheet
A Liverpool Rummy score sheet has seven rows, one for each deal and its contract. When someone goes out, everyone else adds up the cards still in their hand: 5 for each card from 2 to 9, 10 for a 10 or a face card, 15 for an ace or a joker. After deal 7, the lowest total wins.
- Two or three decks, with jokers
- A new contract every deal
- Seven deals
- Lowest total wins
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This is the real Scorepad, live: one hand per deal, lowest wins. In hand 3, Mara’s perfect cut scores her minus 5. Tap any hand to change it.
Liverpool Rummy
A contract rummy game of seven deals in which each deal demands a specific set of melds before you may go down, and every card left in your hand when someone goes out counts against you.
How to play Liverpool Rummy, in brief
Each of the seven deals in Liverpool Rummy sets a contract: the melds you must lay down before you can go out. Lowest total after deal 7 wins.
- Shuffle two or three decksUse two decks with jokers, three for 5 or more players, and deal 10 each, 12 in later deals.
- Meet the contractDeal 1 asks for two sets (3 or more of one rank); later contracts mix in runs (4 or more in a row in one suit).
- Draw, meld, discardTake the top discard or a stock card, lay down your contract if you can, then discard. Once down, add to any meld. Out of turn, you may buy a discard, taking an extra stock card with it.
- Go outThe deal ends when someone plays their last card; the others count what they hold.
Going out is free. Everything you hold costs you.
Whoever goes out scores 0. Everyone else pays for every card still in their hand, whether or not they went down, and two rules worth 50 can move a deal’s score up or down.
What each card left in your hand costs
| Card | Points |
|---|---|
| 2 to 9The same for every one: a 2♣ and a 9♥ are both 5 | 5 |
| 10, J, Q, K | 10 |
| Ace or jokerBoard Game Arena makes a joker 20 | 15 |
| Going out | 0 |
| A perfect cutCutting exactly the cards the deal needs | −50 |
| A meld you start and cannot finish | +50 |
- Go out, score 0The deal ends as soon as one player plays their last card. Write 0 for them.
- Count what everyone else holdsEvery card left in a hand counts, whether or not that player went down: 5, 10 or 15 a card.
- Apply the 50sA perfect cut takes 50 off the cutter’s score for the deal. A player who starts to meld and finds they cannot finish adds 50.
- Add the deal to the running totalLower is better. A deal can come out below zero after a perfect cut, and it still goes on the total.
- Stop after deal 7The game is always seven deals, however far ahead someone is. The lowest total wins; the rules give no tiebreaker.
Deal 3: Sam goes out, and Mara’s cut pays.
The contract is two runs of four. Sam lays down everything and goes out. Jonas is caught with four cards. You are caught with six, an ace and a joker among them. Mara is caught too, but her cut before the deal took off exactly the cards the deal needed, so 50 comes off. This is hand 3 on the Scorepad above.
| Player | Cards left in hand | Hand |
|---|---|---|
| Sam | Went outNothing left in hand | 0 |
| Jonas | K♣ 10♦ 6♠ 2♥10 + 10 + 5 + 5 | 30 |
| Mara | K♠ Q♥ 9♣ 4♦ A♠, and a perfect cut10 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 15, minus 50 | −5 |
| You | A♥ Joker 8♣ 8♦ 7♠ 3♥15 + 15 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 | 50 |
Seven deals, lowest wins, kept straight.
Tabletales is a scorepad and scrapbook for game night. In Liverpool every deal adds to your total and the smallest total wins. Type each player’s leftover points after every deal: Tabletales keeps the running totals and puts the trophy on the smallest.
- The trophy goes to the lowestPick Lowest wins before you start (every new game begins on Highest wins). The trophy then sits on the smallest total after every deal.
- A row for every dealSwitch to By hand and each deal gets its own row, hand 1 to hand 7. The rows are numbered, not named, so keep the list of contracts beside you, or print the sheet below.
- Leftovers on the keypadType each player’s points, or read the cards off as you type: 10 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 15 saves 45, and Tabletales adds it up. For a perfect cut, add - 50 at the end.
- And the night is keptSave it with who played and a photo from the table. Each game gets a history: how often you play it, who with, and who holds the best score.
- Everyone who was there
- Photos from the table
- Liverpool Rummy, with its scores
Common Liverpool Rummy scoring mistakes
- Scoring the player who went outThey score 0 for the deal. Only the players still holding cards add points.
- Underrating aces and jokersEach one costs 15 when you are caught with it, three times a low card.
- Stopping early or playing to a targetThe game is exactly seven deals, however far ahead someone is.
- Forgetting the 50sA perfect cut takes 50 off the cutter, and a meld you start but cannot finish adds 50.
Liverpool Rummy scoring, answered
- How do you score Liverpool Rummy?
- The player who goes out scores 0, and everyone else adds up the cards left in hand: 2 to 9 are 5 each, 10s and face cards 10, aces and jokers 15. After seven deals, the lowest total wins.
- What are the seven contracts in Liverpool Rummy?
- Two sets of three; a set and a run of four; two runs of four; three sets; two sets and a run; a set and two runs; and three runs of four. Some tables make the last contract one run of seven.
- Is there a printable Liverpool Rummy score sheet?
- Yes. The free sheet on this page has a row for each of the seven deals with its contract printed beside it, and a column for each of up to eight players.
Liverpool Rummy score sheet
Print one for the table: the seven deals down the side with each contract printed beside it, a column for each of up to eight players, and a total at the bottom.
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Tables differ: Pagat’s Contract Rummy counts 2 to 9 at face value, Board Game Arena makes jokers 20, the number of cards dealt varies, and the last contract is three runs of four in Pagat and Board Game Arena but one run of seven in Wikipedia. None of them gives a tiebreaker. Rules checked on 19 October 2026 against Wikipedia, Pagat and Board Game Arena.
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