Rummy vs. Sot — What's the Difference?

Rummy is a group of matching-card games notable for similar gameplay based on matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build melds which can be either sets (three or four of a kind of the same rank) or runs (three or more sequential cards of the same suit).

A drunkard.

A card game, played in many variations, in which the object is to obtain melds of three or more cards of the same rank or three or more consecutive cards of the same suit.

(archaic) stupid person; fool

A drunkard.

Drunkard

Odd, strange, or dangerous; rum.

To drink until one becomes drunk

A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.

To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.

A rum-drinking alcoholic.

A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

Resembling or tasting of rum.

A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard.

Peculiar; odd.

Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull.

Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.

Strange; odd.

To tipple to stupidity.

One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.

A chronic drinker

A chronic drinker

A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards

Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;