One circumstance that helped it was the Depression, when more and more people had less and less to spend on going out and enjoying themselves and had to rediscover the art of amusing themselves at home.
One of the reasons why the history of Gin Rummy remains tantalisingly obscure is that it didn’t really come into its own until the 1930s, for as late as the 1926 edition of Official Rules of Card Games it was still being recorded under its older title Poker Gin or Gin Poker. For this reason, Conquian is often called the prototype of the game.
It is believed that it is merely a modified version of Conquian with different rules and scoring methods. The origin of the game can be traced back to a 17 th century game called Conquian which was played in Central American states such as Mexico.
