Just Shanghai

AlchemAIze, Inc.

About this game

Just Shanghai is Contract Rummy (also called Shanghai Rummy). Seven rounds, seven contracts, jokers, and the buy. No ads. No in-app purchases. No virtual currency. Play it solo or pass-and-play around one device.

TWO WAYS TO PLAY

• Solo against three AI opponents that draw, buy, lay down, and lay off with real strategy
• Pass and Play: hand the device around a table of two to four people, with a privacy handoff between turns

THE GAME

Each round has its own contract, climbing from two books up to three runs:

Round 1: two books
Round 2: one book and one run
Round 3: two runs
Round 4: three books
Round 5: two books and one run
Round 6: one book and two runs
Round 7: three runs

A book is three or more cards of a rank. A run is four or more cards in sequence of one suit, with the ace playing low or high. Jokers are wild. You are dealt eleven cards a round and play across all seven.

THE BUY

When a player passes the top discard, everyone else gets a chance to buy it. Buying takes the card plus two penalty cards from the stock, and you get two buys per round. It is the decision that defines Shanghai, and the AI uses it well.

FEATURES

• Full seven-round contract ladder with correct minimum lay sizes
• Solo, pass-and-play for two to four players
• A real contract solver, so the game knows the moment your hand can go down
• Jokers you can reclaim from a run once you are down, with a choice of where the freed joker goes
• Sort your hand by meld, by suit, or by rank with one tap
• Card names spelled out and suit symbols everywhere, so a King of Spades reads as a King of Spades
• Photorealistic cards and a felt table that adapts to iPhone and iPad
• Sound effects and haptics, mute anytime

SCORING

You score the cards left in your hand: low cards five points, tens and faces ten, aces twenty, jokers fifty. Go out by playing every card and you score zero. Lowest total after seven rounds wins.

PRIVACY

Solo and pass-and-play stay entirely on your device. The app itself has no accounts, no servers of its own, no analytics, and no tracking. Your settings and local stats live on your device.

Just Shanghai does not facilitate real-money gambling. It is a classic card game for entertainment only.

What’s new

Initial release!