Pits (card game) Pits (card game) Pits is a five player card game, a cross between whist and rummy, with the objective of playing all your cards first. It is played with a 54 card pack (4 suits and 2 jokers). Threes are low, Aces high, Twos even higher and Jokers highest. Once all the cards are dealt (the dealer getting 10, the others 11), the dealer plays a meld; one of a singleton, "n" of a kind, a run of 3 or more singletons or a run of three or more "n" of a kinds. For example a run of 4 pairs
Mizerka (card game) remaining twenty-eight cards are then dealt once the player chooses a contract. At this point, each player should have thirteen cards. The player to the left of the dealer is then able to swap as many cards as they would like from the talon. If there are still cards remaining, the player to the dealer's right is then able to swap with the talon. This player may only swap as many cards with talon as there are remaining. In the rare case that cards remain in the talon after two players have swapped, the dealer is then able to swap