Bluke 11 cards are dealt on the third hand, and so on until only 1 card is dealt, after which 2 are dealt, then 3, and so on all the way back to 13 (see more about ending the game below). Thus for a standard game of Bluke, a total of 25 hands are dealt. One player needs to be designated as score-keeper and will record bids, tally scores and keep track of how many cards are to be dealt for each hand. Once a hand has been dealt, the remaining cards (2 or more) are passed face down to 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