Rummy, a family of melding card games, has long thrived at kitchen tables, clubs, and casual gatherings. In recent years, digital platforms such as OKRummy have extended the game’s reach, reconfiguring how players meet, learn, wager, and persist. This observational study describes play both offline and online, focusing on routine behaviors, decision points, and dynamic feedback loops that shape engagement. Rather than testing a hypothesis, the aim is descriptive: to document what typical sessions look like and what features of the environment most reliably steer attention and choice.

To assemble these observations, I alternated between three settings over several weeks: informal home games using standard 52-card decks