only remaining card in hand, marking the conclusion of the step for all players. A player gets to this point by laying down and then playing off their and other players’ hands. A player is floating if they exhaust their cards and are not able to discard. In this case, the hand continues until somebody successfully goes out. At no point in time is it acceptable to draw a card from the up pile and discard the same card during the same turn. It follows that a floater must draw an unplayable card from the deck (down-pile) in order to go out. When floating, a player may also play off of someone, meaning they can add on to a run or set owned by another player by simply laying the cards they want to play in front of them. It is customary for a player to knock on the table when there is only one card left in their hand, alerting other players to the fact that they are close to going out. Variants In the "Me" variant, a player may buy a card out of turn from the discard pile by calling "me" or "I'll buy that". They pick up the discarded (bought) card and a penalty (the price for buying the card). The difference from Liverpool Rummy is that whoever calls "me" first gets the card as opposed to the player who is nearest (clockwise) the player about to draw. See also Rummy Canasta Tonk Phase 10 References American card games Rummy French deck card games de:Gin Rummy fr:Gin Rami ja:ジン・ラミー fi:Ginirommi sv:Gin rummy