Panguingue

Panguingue, also known as Pan for short, is a gambling Rummy game which is popular in the southwest USA. From four to eight players can take part in one game. It is played with eight decks of standard cards from which the 8's, 9's and 10's have been removed - 320 cards altogether. Often the odds are changed by removing one complete set of spades, leaving 310 cards. Sometimes the 3, 5 and 7 and occasionally the 2 and queen from a second set of spades are also removed, leaving a pack of 307 or 305 cards.

Rules will eventually be given on this page. A description of Panguingue is available on Randy Rasa's Rummy-Games.com site.

The Pan Club [archive copy] used to offer an on line Pan game. Prize tournaments were held periodically, and there was a Pan blog for Pan news and discussion. On line Pan lessons were also available - contact for details.

Archive copy of the Pan Player web site which offered Pan cards, supplies and information.

The game of Panguingue and its name may well have originated in the Philippines. Thierry Depaulis writes:

I've found it in José Villa Panganiban's huge Diksyunaryo-tesauro pilipino-ingles (Lungsod Quezon, 1972):
pangginggi n. Ilk. [Iloko] Tg. old-time card game using naipes cards of the Spanish era.
In fact this is confirmed too by the OED on-line version (1993 additions):
"panguingue, n. [ad. Tagalog pangguinggui.]"