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
Gin rummy Gin rummy Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game created in 1909 by Elwood T. Baker and his son C. Graham Baker. It is a variant of rummy. According to the magician and writer John Scarne, gin rummy evolved from 19th-century whiskey poker and was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy but less spontaneous than knock rummy. John Scarne's theory deriving rummy from poker via whiskey poker has not gained general acceptance. Gin rummy is played with a standard 52-card pack of cards. The ranking from high to low is King, Queen, Jack,