Rami Marocain
Rami Marocain — known in Morocco as Talaj — is the country’s most popular card game. It is played with two 52-card decks by two to five players, each dealt 14 cards: 108 cards with the four jokers in, or 104 at a table that leaves them out. You cannot lay anything on the table until your combinations reach the opening total, and that total is the table’s to choose before the first deal — 51 or 71 points, both long-standing Moroccan conventions. That opening is the Tahbita, and it is what sets the Moroccan game apart from every other rummy variant.
Only two kinds of combination count: a Tria (or tirsi) — three or four cards of the same rank in different suits — and a Série (or suivi) — three or more cards running in sequence in one suit. The bar climbs as the round goes: once someone opens with a total, the next player to open has to beat it, and — at a table that plays the requirement, which is the usual one — an opening must contain at least one set and one run built from cards you drew yourself. Discards stack face-up on the Talaj, and the round ends when a player sheds their last card — which must be discarded, never melded. Everyone still holding cards takes a khtiya: a flat penalty if they never opened, otherwise per card, with a joker costing the most.
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