Khanhoo

Khanhoo is a non-partnership Chinese card game of draw-and-discard structure which may be as old as T'ienkeu ("Heavens and Nines"), revised in its rules and published in an authorized edition by Emperor Kao Tsung in 1130 AD for the information of his subjects. Meaning "watch the pot", it is very possibly the ancestor of all rummy games.

Adapted to the western taste by Sir William Henry Wilkinson, British Sinologist and Consul-General in China and Korea in the mid-1890s, it belongs to the same family as Mahjong and the mid-nineteenth century Mexican card game Conquian, whose name probably derives from the Chinese card game Kon Khin.