Rummikub score sheet
A Rummikub score sheet keeps one line per game. When a player empties their rack, everyone else scores the tiles left on theirs as a minus, a joker costing 30, and the winner scores their total as a plus, so every game adds up to zero. Play the number of rounds you agreed.
- 2 to 4 players
- A joker on your rack costs 30
- Rounds agreed at the start
- Every game adds to zero
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This is the real Scorepad, live. Each hand is one Rummikub game, and every row adds to zero. Tap any hand to change it.
Rummikub
- BGG #1742
- About 60 min
A rummy game played with numbered tiles in four colors. Everyone races to empty their rack into runs and groups, and you may rearrange anything already on the table to make room.
Players, time and rank from BoardGameGeek.
How to play Rummikub, in brief
Rummikub is rummy with numbered tiles: empty your rack into runs and groups, rearranging the table to fit yours in. First to play their last tile wins the game.
- Take 14 tilesMix the tiles face down. Each player takes 14 for their rack; the rest are the pool.
- Know your setsA group is 3 or 4 of one number in different colors; a run is 3 or more numbers in order in one color. A joker can be any tile.
- Open with 30Your first play must be sets from your own rack whose numbers total at least 30.
- Play or drawAfter that, add to the table and rearrange its sets freely, as long as each is whole when you finish. If you play nothing, draw a tile. Your last tile ends the game: call Rummikub.
The winner collects what everyone else is still holding.
A game of Rummikub stops the moment someone plays the last tile from their rack. Tiles already on the table count for nobody: only the racks are scored, and the winner’s plus is everyone else’s minus.
What a tile left on your rack costs
| Tile | Points |
|---|---|
| Number tiles, 1 to 13A red 12 left on your rack costs 12 | Face value |
| JokerCaught on your rack, whatever tile it could have stood for | 30 |
| The player who went outScored as a plus | Everyone else’s total |
- Stop at RummikubA game ends when a player plays the last tile from their rack and calls Rummikub.
- Count every other rackEach other player adds up the tiles left on their rack at face value, a joker for 30, and scores that as a minus.
- Pay the winnerThe winner scores the total of everyone else’s racks as a plus, so the game adds up to zero.
- If the pool runs dryWhen the pool is empty and nobody can play, the lowest rack wins the game. Each other player scores the gap between their rack and the winner’s as a minus, and the winner collects the sum.
- Play the rounds you agreedOn the official sheet a round is one game per player, so three games for three players. The most games won takes it, and the highest total breaks a tie.
Game 6: Mara goes out, and you are caught with the joker.
Mara plays her last tile. Dev still holds a 7, a 4 and a 12, and you are stuck with a joker, a 9 and a 1. This is hand 6 on the Scorepad above, where your minus is typed as a sum.
| Player | Tiles left on the rack | Game |
|---|---|---|
| You | Joker · 9 · 1-30 - 9 - 1 | −40 |
| Mara | Went outThe other racks: 40 + 23 | 63 |
| Dev | 7 · 4 · 12-7 - 4 - 12 | −23 |
Every game comes to zero, and the pad shows it.
Tabletales is a scorepad and scrapbook for game night. In Rummikub the winner scores what everyone else is left holding. Type each rack on the Scorepad and Tabletales adds it up and keeps the running score.
- One game, one handKeep Highest wins and switch to By hand. Each Rummikub game is a numbered hand, and the TOTAL line keeps the running score.
- A rack is one entryType each rack’s total, or type it the way you read it (-30 - 9 - 1) and Tabletales adds it up to −40. The winner’s plus is 40 + 23.
- Counting games wonThe trophy goes to the highest total, as many tables play. Under the official most-games-won rule, count each player’s plus hands on the grid yourself.
- And the night is keptSave it with who played and a photo of the table. Each game gets a history: how often you play it, who with, and who holds the high score.
- Everyone who was there
- Photos from the table
- Rummikub, with its scores
Common Rummikub scoring mistakes
- Scoring a joker as the tile it stood forA joker caught on your rack costs 30, whatever it was meant to be.
- Giving the winner nothingThe winner scores the total of everyone else’s racks as a plus.
- Counting tiles on the tableOnly the tiles left on your rack count. Everything already played scores for nobody.
- Opening too smallYour first meld must be worth at least 30 points from your own rack (a joker counts as the tile it replaces), with no help from the table.
Rummikub scoring, answered
- How do you keep score in Rummikub?
- When someone goes out, every other player scores the tiles left on their rack as a minus, with a joker at 30, and the winner scores the total of those racks as a plus. Write one line per game and keep a running total.
- How much is a joker worth in Rummikub?
- A joker left on your rack when the game ends costs 30 points. While you play, including your opening meld, it counts as the tile it replaces.
- Who wins Rummikub, most games or most points?
- On the official score sheet, the player who wins the most games across the agreed rounds wins, and the highest total breaks a tie. Many tables simply crown the highest total.
Rummikub score sheet
A printable Rummikub score sheet for the table: four players and sixteen games, with a running total beside every game and the tile values at the bottom. Circle each game’s winner to count games won.
Score another game
Tables differ on the overall winner: the official sheet counts games won, others take the highest total after the agreed rounds or play to a target score. When the pool runs out, Wikipedia, which follows a 1998 American edition, gives the game to the fewest tiles rather than the lowest rack, and a few tables charge 25 for a joker. Rummikub XP seats 5 or 6. Rules checked on 19 October 2026 against the official Rummikub rules, Wikipedia and gamerules.com. Rummikub is a trademark of M&M Ventures (2014) Limited, as named on the official rules. Tabletales is not affiliated with the game’s owners or makers.
Keep score tonight. Keep the night for good.
Tabletales adds up every hand, then saves the whole night: the games, the scores, the photos and who was there.
