Rummy Rainbow: A Vibrant Take on a Time-Honored Game Rummy, a card game that has long enthralled players, has a long and diverse history that dates back to the early 1800s. It is generally accepterumny goldd that the game developed from a synthesis of prior card games, such as the Chinese game "Kong," the Mexican game "Concentration," and the American game "Gin Rummy," even though the precise origins are still a little unclear. The game of rummy was first mentioned in the late nineteenth century by American author & humorist Mark Twain, whose works contain the earliest known mentions of it.