No comments about The Games People Play: Gin - Cribbage - Checkers - Backgammon, 3.5" Diskette Edition.

1 comments about Culbertson system of playing gin rummy,.

1. This is for beginners only. There are a lot of better books than this on gin. The only redeeming value to me of this book is the description of how to play persian rummy 4 person partnership game. Also, it has a lot of dated material on the game. It scores the game 10 for knock, 20 for gin, 20 for boxes.

1 comments about Play gin to win.

1. This is a decent book on gin rummy. It provides a good synopsis of the different type of player that exists in gin rummy. It is also a quick read.

No comments about How To Talk at Gin.

2 comments about Gin Rummy at Its Best from Beginner to Expert: From Beginner to Expert.

1. Having written a book on learning how to play gin rummy I naturally read all the books on that topic before adventuring into the field myself. George Fraed's book paralled my strategy so closely that I wanted to someday meet this fine gentleman. It was my good fortune to be able to not only meet him but play against him in a gin tournament in Las Vegas. Having read his book I was in for no surprises. He beat me anyway. I went back and read his book again. An extremely well-written book, with lots of interesting anecdotes of his experiences in playing in tournaments. This book is a MUST for anyone who is serious about becoming a better player.



2. This is the same book as his later titled Gin Rummy: How to Play and How to Win.

No comments about Cohen's complete book of gin rummy.

1 comments about The gin game: A tragi-comedy in two acts.

1. Winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize, the Best Production Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and the Tony Award for Best Actress for Jessica Tandy, who starred in the play with her husband Hume Cronyn, The Gin Game, by D. L. Coburn, focuses on two elderly residents of an old age home as they come to know each other and themselves. Initially, Fonsia Dorsey appears to be genteel and reserved, a woman who is offended by any hint of profanity ("I never heard my papa say a curse word in his life."), a perfect lady whose consignment to this welfare home is the cause of her initial tears. Weller Martin is a tougher sort, a businessman who lost his business and now keeps himself busy playing cards. Both characters maintain their dignity by avoiding the other residents of the home, "a warehouse for the intellectually and emotionally dead."
   
   Weller sees in Fonsia a potential partner in gin rummy, and she, "learning" the game from him, quickly catches on and wins several games. As they continue to meet and play over the course of two weeks, they gradually reveal their pasts, hiding their failures and their tragedies within protective stories which preserve their images of themselves. As Fonsia continues to win at gin, Weller becomes more and more frustrated, and he begins to pick away at her protective cover, identifying her weaknesses, attacking her credibility, and forcing her to look at herself realistically.
   
   The play builds its themes slowly, hiding their serious nature behind the veneer of comedy, much of which is visual during the card games. The characters are both lonely and vulnerable, and their jokes about their lives and the lives of other residents ring true, full of universal humor. Their comments, however, betray their own concerns about their future. The gin game, symbolic of the game of life, consumes them as they try to determine whether winning is a matter of luck, Divine Intervention, or personal skill. A powerhouse of a play, using humor to set its poignant messages into sharp relief, The Gin Game is theater at its best. Mary Whipple

2 comments about The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn.

1. Winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize, the Best Production Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Actress for Jessica Tandy, and the L.A. Drama Critics Circle acting awards for both Tandy and her husband Hume Cronyn, this play was a winner from the day it opened. Written by D. L. Coburn, it focuses on two elderly residents of an old-age home as they come to terms with each other and themselves.
   
   Initially, Fonsia Dorsey (Jessica Tandy) appears to be genteel and reserved, a woman who is offended by any hint of profanity, a perfect lady whose consignment to this welfare home is the source of her sorrow. Weller Martin (Hume Cronyn) is a tougher sort, a failed businessman who now keeps himself busy playing cards. Both characters maintain their dignity by avoiding the other residents of the home, "a warehouse for the intellectually and emotionally dead."
   
   Quickly learning to play gin, Fonsia meets with Weller to play over the course of two weeks. Gradually, they reveal their pasts, hiding their failures and their tragedies within protective stories which preserve their images of themselves. As Fonsia repeatedly wins at cards, Weller, in frustration, begins to pick away at her cover, forcing her to look at herself realistically. She, in turn, begins to taunt him, making him confront his failures, and a violent argument ensues.
   
   Tandy plays Fonsia as vulnerable but also manipulative. Cronyn is gruffer and more defensive. As Tandy tries not to gloat about winning and Cronyn tries (only slightly) to hide his frustration, their card games become episodes of psychological warfare, and the gin game becomes the game of life, with both players trying to determine whether winning is a matter of luck, Divine Intervention, or personal skill.
   
   Tandy and Cronyn are perfect foils, using visual humor, gestures, sidelong glances, signs of discomfort, and all the other nonverbal signals that many elderly people have developed to perfection. As Cronyn slaps down a card that he is sure is a winner and Tandy tentatively reveals a better card, the humor reaches its height, and when Cronyn taunts her and Tandy finally responds by using the F-word, the dramatic irony reaches its peak.
   
   Powerful, realistic, and filled with an ironic humor which sets the play's poignant messages into sharp relief, this video, an actual live performance, conveys the excitement of a great Broadway play starring the greatest of actors in one of the best and most satisfying productions ever mounted. Mary Whipple



2. I saw The Gin Game with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn years ago on TV. I loved it. It was perfection. I taped it and then lost the tape, so this is a happy day for me. I have been searching for years. The other production with Mary Tyler Moore and Dick van Dyke just missed the boat. It lacked the finesse and pathos so witty and moving in the Tandy and Cronyn version. When I read that it was to be done with MTM and DvD I thought,"This is going to be awful". I was not disappointed. They even made changes that just begs the question, "If it ain't broke, why fix it?" They shouldn't have. Those of you who purchase this one will not regret it.

No comments about D. L. Coburn's "The Gin Game": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" (Volume 23, Chapter 6).

No comments about Fun with games of rummy: America's most popular game : including canasta, bolivia, samba and all other popular forms of canasta, gin rummy, contract rummy, ... official rules and advice on winning play.