Next come the rules to the high-end Skarney Gin. Then we give rules to a simple variant called Sequence Gin. Somehow the game had survived or resurfaced after two decades! Ginīecame a fad in the early 1940s, probably because film starsįirst we’ll summarize the rules for standard Gin Rummy, aka Oklahoma To find the game being played at New York clubs in the 1930s. Rummy combined with genuine strategic depth. This is an archive copy of a page from the former website, with thanks to Howard Fosdick for permission to republish it here.