Five Crowns (game) with more players if the cards from 2 sets are mixed together. The game is played over 11 rounds, similar to the rummy style game Three Thirteen. In the first round, 3 cards are dealt to each player. In the second round, 4 cards are dealt to each player, and so on until round 11 where 13 cards are dealt to each player. As in the game Three Thirteen, players create sets or runs of 3 or more, using the Jokers and the current round's wild card as wilds. Each round has a different wild card (the 3's in the
Viennese Rummy rules. Unless otherwise stated, the rules of the game are the same as those for German Rummy. The card values are as follows: Players now try to improve their hand by drawing and discarding cards, as they do in German Rummy. A game continues until one player calls "Rummy" ("Rommé"), melds ten cards and discards the eleventh. The other players then lay out their cards and count them up as in Gin Rummy, by summing their deadwood, i.e. those that cannot be placed into sets or runs. The game can also be ended by "knocking" ("klopfen"): if a player has