Bush Rummy is a real-time multiplayer score tracker for the card game Bush Rummy — a 13-round rummy variant where the wild card rotates each round.
Features
- Multiplayer rooms — create or join a game with a 4-letter room code; state syncs live across all connected players via WebSockets
- Score tracking — tracks cumulative scores across all 13 rounds with per-player running totals
- Card scanning — photograph your hand and Claude will identify the cards and calculate your score for the current round
- Game history — final results are saved so you can look back at past games
How It Works
The app runs a Node.js server alongside the jay.tools static site. Each game room lives in a shared state file; connected players receive real-time updates via WebSockets. Card scanning uses the Claude API with vision to read cards from a photo.