The Game
Okey is a Turkish Rummy variant usually played by 4 players (a 2-3 player game is also possible) while the play itself includes 106 tiles. One side of tiles is numbered from 1 to 13 and is colored red, green, yellow or black – while the other side is blank. There are eight tiles of each number and every pair has a different color.

The Play
The game play, just like any other Rummy game consists of drawing and discarding tiles, while trying to meld the tiles in one's hand and to be the first player to go out. A winning hand can consist of 14 tiles all melded into sets and runs or a hand with 7 pairs of tiles with the same number and color. The players can reveal their winning hand after discarding their last card. This means that in Okey, the melds are not shown during the play, but rather shown in the end – as soon as one of the players goes out. Another fun an exciting aspect of the Okey game is the die. The game is played with a 6 sided die that determines the distribution of the cards at the beginning of each round. Okey has its own special scoring system in which each player begins the play with 20 points, and loses or gains additional points during the rounds.

Just like Kalooki (Kaluki), this Rummy variant incorporates the use of wild cards – the Jokers. However in Okey there are two different kinds of Jokers. One type of Jokers is manifested in the two blank playing tiles and the second type is determined every round, according to first tile that is exposed. The second type of Jokers is called "False Jokers".

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