Rumble Tab
The Double Agent and the Eight Ball mid-hand at the felt, scores glowing on their phones and the wall screen

THE STORY OF THE JOINT

About RumbleTab

RumbleTab is a scorekeeper for rummy nights. You open a night, deal the cards, and score every hand on a phone while the totals move live on every other phone at the table, and on the big screen if you've got one. Lowest total wins. Winner scores zero. No paper, no math arguments, no “hang on, whose count is this?”

  • Live scoring. Every hand lands on every phone the moment it's scored. The table sees the damage together.
  • A table for every crowd. Groups keep your family table, the cabin crew, and the work-night skirmishes separate, each with its own record.
  • Boards that never forget. Standings, streaks, and stats across every night you've ever played. Bragging rights with receipts.
  • The feed. Every night writes its own story. Comment, react, gloat responsibly or otherwise.
  • Badges. Achievements handed out when the night closes. Repeat offenders collect the full case.
  • Works with no signal. Cabin, basement, back porch with zero bars: score the whole night and it syncs itself the moment you're back in the world.
  • iPhone and the web. The app travels with the table.

WHY WE BUILT IT

RumbleTab exists because my wife and I are fierce rummy rivals, and keeping score was always a pain in the ass. Napkins lied. Notebooks vanished. Nobody trusted the mental math, least of all ours. We wanted the score kept properly, and we wanted somewhere to share the rivalry between us: a feed for the trash talk, standings that remember, badges to lord over each other. And since our friends are rummy fanatics too, the whole circle got tables of their own. Every rivalry runs in one place now, and nobody forgets a single hand.

A BALTIMORE FIRST

Baltimore has a habit of going first.

  • The first gas street lamp in America (1816).
  • America's first railroad, the B&O (1827).
  • The country's first umbrella factory (1828).
  • The world's first dental college (1840).
  • The first long-distance telegram ever received: “What hath God wrought” (1844).
  • The Ouija board, patented here (1890).

RumbleTab is a humble first among them: the first family scorepad born of a Baltimore grudge match. This town has gone first plenty. We're proud to be the smallest one yet.