Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 10:36 am
Rummikub – Board Game Review
Rummikub is a Board/Family game from Kinkajoo Ltd, first launched in 7th March 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 12,144+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Rummikub Stand Out
The original Rummikub FREE version (not Rummy nor Rummy Cube or Okey) is one of the most popular family games in the world.
The unique combination of tactical thinking, luck and tense competition has made this classic family game to one of the most successful games for the past 70 years! Arrange the tiles to create the smartest color and numbers combinations.
Will you be the first player to place all tiles and win the match?
- Play the classic Rummikub game online with your friends, family or players from all around the World.
- You can choose to connect with your Facebook account, Game Center or as a guest.
- Collect a daily bonus and get rewarded for coming back everyday.
PLAY NOW
Play ONLINE with millions of Rummikub players from all around the world and try to win as many points as you can to become the Rummikub Master!
CUSTOM GAME
CREATE a public table with your own preferences; number of players, turn time and entry fee.
PRIVATE GAME
INVITE FRIENDS and family members to play!
Create private tables and choose your own personal game settings.
You can see which of your friends are online from your Facebook's friendlist and invite them to join you to play a fun classic Rummikub game.
We offer a few types of tables – for conservative, moderate and High Roller's players.
PRACTICE GAME
Play against computer players (also available OFFLINE). Define the turn time, opponents number and difficulty level.
Includes 10 supported languages – English, German, French, Dutch, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, and Turkish.
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This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Rummikub is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Download & Availability
Rummikub is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Amazing game! Ive been playing this over the last few months and been collecting so many coins Im close to a million coins already and just reached score 9! Just one annoying thing, which is just too bad cuz dont see how this cud be fixed, when players use their entire turn to arrange all the sets on the board. Thats really annoying. We dont mind when players take 30 seconds since theyre entitled to that, but when they arrange and rearrange the cards its really frustrating, its almost as if theyre doing specifically to upset us! But otherwise the game is just great! We really enjoy the challenge of placing every tile in a 30 second time frame and basically the whole game. FF.
The practice mode is harder, but you learn to think fast against a bot that knows all the ways to get their tiles down. Good practice. Live against other people is also great. Ads arent excessive. There is one before each new game. Some are around 30 seconds, others you can skip after like 5 seconds. Overall for an app it is fun and Ive definitely enjoyed it.
How do we remove adds? We're ready to pay to remove them.
This game can get really stressing, but it is calming a little bit to us and really fun to play one of our favorite games love it. The only thing we dont like is when we play we always have to have a Time limit. We try turning it as high as we can, but there is no unlimited time for playing. We write this four stars because of this.
The game works great but we really wish there was a mode without jokers. We find if you have a joker you just win. People hold it till the last play so nobody gets to use it which makes it not fun to play unless you get one.
We sort of wish it wasnt so addictive. We have had coins disappear in the past though. We have found using guided access on iPhone13 makes it so that our phone cant scroll down and make us lose time when we are playing. That has been a game changer for us.
Ive played this game for years and we love it. However, you need to give players the option to use their own photos and have the ability to chat (nicely) please. No updates ever..? Do you ever monitor the game? Also give players the option to be friends and build teams and play each other, 2 friend player up to 4 player. Friends, not people you dont know that dont play correctly, hold their cards and play gin. This is not gin rummy.
Our grandchildren and we just found this because we couldnt find our physical version of the game. We have been playing nonstop! The timers and the board memory cant be beat. And the tiles look exactly like they should! Sadly, it thinks it owns the phone. If you stop to answer a call, the app crashes. If you switch to check a text message, it disconnects from the server and youre lucky to get back in. Theres no way to pause the game yourself though. So its kind of a greedy app with your attention. Also, there are no incremental undos. You cant just undo the last move – it removes everything you did! If you invite friends who have the app, the URL it sends doesnt enter them into the game. They have to extract the gameID and join manually. Thats tedious. The message bubble and smileys are fun but why can we not enter our own brief message? The biggest thing: add background app refresh and allow users to pause the game without disconnecting.
We enjoy playing this game, the only fault that we see with this game the way it is set up, is the fact that you cannot pause it.
We have been playing this game for quite a while and all of the sudden the ads are freezing and we cant get to the game. We have deleted and reinstalled the app, cleared our cache, turned off our device, but no luck. Very frustrating.
While we love playing this game, it is marketed as ages four and older. During our time playing this, we have seen crude inappropriate or political usernames, including curse words. We do not see a way to report these usernames while in the app.
Need to fix when you drag from the bottom or top on iphone it keeps wanting to switch apps or when your trying to place tiles and it thinks your trying to place back into your tray. Other than that game is good.
We had played and practiced on this game for quite a few days. The ads are annoying, but we needed to practice so we could play in our community. All of a sudden the computer player made plays, but then they were immediately removed from the board. Something is really wrong.we tried rebooting our iPad, but it didnt work.
Love the game. This app is Ok. Would love to see a version with the special tiles the mirror, color change and double face wild.
Doesnt connect all the time, but more than that: lately when we collect free coins, the dumb solitaire ad you have to watch NEVER ENDS. It will go for 2 entire minutes and then have the pop up to get the game and then it never clears, leaving us with a black screen and having to exit the app and start over for it only to do the same thing again. Very annoying. Stop using that company for advertising or fix the bug.
We disconnect from gameplay all the time because the tile rack overlaps with our phones bottom bar . We hate it, we hate interrupting the game for other players, and it seems like an easy layout fix.
A friend showed us this game and Ive enjoyed learning it. Everything we great but multiple times in the last two weeks Ive gone through an entire game without the ability to play a tile because we did not have to initial 30 point move. It is very frustrating that this happens, but to have happened multiple times within a short period of time makes it not fun to play. One literally sits there and watches everyone play tiles for an entire game, round after round. Its to a point that we dont know if Ill continue playing anymore. Sad because the game is fun when this doesnt happen. Another thing we would change would be the ability for players to hit the make a movebutton. There are some players that constantly hit it on everyones turn and it becomes increasingly annoying. That should be limited because it takes away the fun. Our favorite games is Words With Friends. They dont allow this.
We dont love this computerized version. Why? 1. Playing mostly bots is frustrating. Its obvious when tiles are played at lightning speed. 2. The timer shows we still have time to place tiles. Yet even during the timer countdown, we cant make a move so even if only one tile is not placed, all of our moves are returned to our tray. It should be just that one tile! Like in the real board game. When playing the real game, you dont have to pick up all your tiles youve just placed because you cant place the last one youre trying to play! 3. Players hold the jokers to play their last move to win. Thats cheating. Shouldnt be allowed. Either take away jokers altogether, or make it not possible to play the last move using a joker. Easy fix. 4. But please please PLEASE fix your board to not allow tiles to jump around as youre rearranging tiles and making moves. On more than one occasion Ive lost a game because the board is invalid only to realize two tiles had jumped away from the grouping and we didnt see it. The tiles should not jump around like that. Very annoying! Last point: some players are there to troll. They like to just collect tiles until the pile is depleted, frustrating other players who cant make moves and the winner is by default (least points in their hand). Those players should be kicked out when its clear they can make moves but arent.
This game is very good and fun to play there could be some things that could be fixed like how it glitches when u set tiles down and then u cant play and it resets the whole thing and also sometimes its hard to control where the tiles go and stuff like that but when we works fine it is amazing and fun and a good thing to do when ur bored but when u are having issues it makes you want to punch something.
As we play, we notice how fast some players drop tiles. Theres no way they can move that fast without being a bot. Secondly, repeat times we have 20 plus tiles while all 3 other players are down to 4. Randomly drawn tiles – yea right. Just another game that sets players up for failure.
We have the game language set to English. We dont mind the ads but it offends us that we cannot understand the language the ads are using. All our ads are either in the Latino or Asian language. Please change our commercials to English only. Kathy.
You can see whos an AI bot by their NPC usernames. They hold on to their tiles and jokers and do a big blitz at the end. Their tiles go down faster than a human could ever do it. It might keep the games going to have bots playing, but is it really fair? We think its sad.
Theres so many bugs! Either it closes right away when its opened, or mid game is closes out and we cant get back in. Very frustrating.
Too many ads. Ads are long. Many ads requiring multiple layers to close out or glitch up the app. We cant say enough about how bad these ads are. Far worse than any other free game. Unfortunate, because game is good.
Ive been playing this game with no concerns. Fun, challenging, and exciting. Lately the game will not start, it crashes while we are in the middle of the game, and takes our coins that we used to join the game. Very frustrating. Please fix this problem.
Be aware once you start playing many games in a row, an app advertisement comes up right on the part of the screen where your numbers are and you can not see your bottom. You cannot remove it unless you download the app. (Which we have no interest in doing). This puts a damper on the game. So sad as we have been happy (five star happy) until they started doing this.
Our phone has 500+ mbps and this app will tell us our internet connection is not strong enough to play. Very frustrating as we love playing the game.
When you make over 1000 credits it forces you to bet 500, even if you leave it takes the credits from you.. Its dumb, and insulting to players time at the expense. Dont want to delete it, but definitely never buying this with real money.
This game used to be fun. Now there are so many people who hoard their tiles and then go out to win. We hate it. If you cant play the game and let others work off of your tiles through the game then dont play. Ive been playing this game for years and until recently we enjoyed it.
Also, we had a few instances where somebody won before we could open. There should be a limit as to the number of times that a player cannot open, and they should be given a wildcard.
We dont know about the glitches people are talking about because we couldnt stand the ads long enough to play more than a couple games. Im deleting it. We just want to play a quick game sometimes and it makes you watch an incredibly long and irritating ad before you can even play one game.
Absolutely love this game! Its fun & challenging, and gives your brain a good workout.
We watched so many adds to collect enough coins to enter the tournaments. Right now Im at 2,100,000 coins. Our first Tournament was like 5,000 coins to enter and we tried to stay on the top 10 won 8 th place and won 80,000 coins we notice instead of getting 100 coins by playing the add we were getting 1, 000. Then went on our second tournament. Entry fee was 50,000 coins so we went for it stayed in the top 10 won 7th place and it gave us 800,000 coins and now by watching adds its giving us 10,000 coins per add. Some ads are only 5 seconds, how amazing its that. We think its better playing tournaments because even though if someone leaves the game and a robot continues and wins we notice who ever won the second place gets the win. We went for the third tournament too late and Im not even close to any the top places. But the win its now 5 million coins. Im still watching ads and Im up to 2.1 million coins. We love tournaments more because you dont loose all your coins. The only thing we dont like its when players dont have a move at the beginning of the game and take the whole 30 seconds and do nothing its frustrating. Sometimes you get 3 out of the 4 playeras doing the same thing. And it gets boring. We love when all of us players love the tiles fast. Its more exciting.
Love it little repetitious a littl.
Rummikub is so fun. You can go against friends and family. You can also play with AIs. The more coins you get the better chance you will do on the tournaments. We defiantly recommend playing this game you can play for hours, just to pass time, or in long car rides.
1-0, perfect undefeated. 2-0 if you count the tutorial.
We grew up playing this with our mom. She was the only one who ever played with us. Ive taught our husband and our children how to play it but no one wants to ever play with us. This really brings back some sweet memories of our momma.
We play this game all the time! It is exactly like the original game, and is the best online version of a game we have found. You are able to play against a computer, random people, or make private games to play against your friends and family. When playing against the computer or in a private game, you are able to change how long everyones turn is (infinite(only against computer), 15 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, or 2 min). We highly recommend this game to everyone.
We love this app. We play this game all the time, however there is one thing that is really annoying. When in practice mode when you are against a computer, the hold a lot of tiles in their hand and lay them down all at once. We wish there would be a mode where if they have the tiles that fit on the board, they have to lay them down. It really is a pain when they hold 10 tiles and win the game by laying them all down. If they fixed that, the game would be perfect.
We think there could be a reward set where you get coins every time you win a game you have to pay coins for. You could also have a daily rewards thing if you didnt do every time you won. Other than that we think this game is amazing. We love this game out of the box, but to be able to practice while driving in the car. We are young so to be able to practice and get our mind ready for the day online. We are happy yall included an ad to be able to get coins whenever you are out thats a life saver for us! We bought this when we were out of town because we played with some friends out of the box and just had to have it on our IPad. Overall we would give a five star review, but just the coin deal.
We normally buy the $9.99 package where we get 40,000 coins. We find that when we purchase this amount, the game determines the amount of coins for the game and of course its like 5k or 1k, very large amounts right after the purchase. We dont know if there is a way to determine how many coins you would like to play each game (would be a great option if it is not). We guess this is a question am we playing against a computer when we Play Now? We cant tell. We know the practice uses a computer generated person(s). Not fair if we are playing against a computer and using our hard earned money. Other than that, we loved playing the game. Last thing we do before we shut our eyes each night.
Rummikub is a really fun game. However, there are people on the app who cheat by keeping all their tiles and playing them all at the end. Some people are so selfish. But when people play fairly, its great.
We really like the game because we can play with other people and we can practice our skills.
New to The game but as we began to learn It starts to get supper fun and addicting. Ill be paying for no ads as well. We took away a star because we are currently signed into Apple ID but everytime we close the game we have to sign in with Face ID, /signs us out everytime.
We dont like playing 500 tokens at a time Id rather only play 100. Second thing is that you cant get out of the game if you dont wanna play that one fast enough without losing tokens. Have fun.
Game play is pretty stable, although the yawn emoji is pretty annoying. Players only have 30 seconds anyway whats your hurry? The biggest issue, and based on other reviews its obvious the developers are aware and have decided not to fix it, is that the function of leaving a game doesnt work without losing the buy in. You press leave, and as the confirmation window is coming up, you can hear the game start anyway, and the coins are taken away, even as you are returned to the menu. The only time it works properly is if sufficient players dont enter the game in the time it takes for the confirmation window to display and be accepted. We contacted support and they refunded the coins (thank you) but basically denied that theres any issue. Their solution is for us to establish a custom game in order to play. That does help, but the leave issue still exists, as we found out when we started a game by accident. If a leave option is offered, it should work without cost. This is doable with proper programming.
We love Rummikub, but dont pay to play! Why would you? You are not playing against real people either. No one can think that fast. We have to laugh when as the game progresses they can move 20 tiles around in 30 seconds just to play 1 tile. You wont win very often.
We dont understand the logistics into who gets what tile. Its almost an every game kind of thing where we have 25 tiles because no thing is equalling to 30 and our competitors only have 5 pieces left to win. The rule to start with an added total of 30 is ridiculous.
We really love this game, except that: 1) it constantly loses connectivity, 2) some ads force you to click on a link to a web page, 3) You cannot set a limit to how many coins you would like to play (for instance if we only have 15k coins we dont want to join a game of 10k coins), and 4) when we choose to leave a game Im still charged the coins. Nonetheless we still enjoy this game.
Fun to play except when you get people that hoard tiles and then immediately go out by placing down 20 or 25 tiles. You can also tell when you are playing with the bots because the tiles moves so quickly that your head spins.then you realize there is no chance to win. Both take the fun out of the game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.12.12
- Size: 262.84 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, KO, PL, PT, ZH, ES, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Kinkajoo Ltd
Last updated: 8th December 2025 | Genre: Board, Family | Developer: Kinkajoo Ltd