Field Notes Day 3 dcook

On this the tird day that I visited the retirement center I became familiar with a practice that is known and many enjoy within the retirement center and that tradition of pride and competition is rummikub. The game of rummikub is a somewhat complicated game. I was invited to join after observing a certain board game being played by several residents. I had never played nor heard of the game but the residents were avid on teaching me and introducing me to the world of Rummikub. I will not go into a great detail about the game but suffice it to say that I am not the world's greatest rummikub player, in fact i downright stunk. I will say this though, this is more to show how good these players really are, at the end of a round the tiles on everyone's racks are added up, the three players who did not declare rummikub and essentially vistory get that added number subtracted fromm their score but the victor gets the total negative number of all three players added to his own score. The very first round that I played went something like this...my score was negative 33 the other two round loser's scores were negative 3 and negative 1 with the winner possessing a score of positie 37. Needless to say i was both somewhat embarrassed and astounded at how these residents had perfected both their rumikub play and startegy. I left "with my tail between my legs," but determined to come back the next day that they would play.