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
Robbers' rummy the next player without drawing another card. Danyliuk includes 2 additional rules: The first player to meld or lay off all held cards is the winner. The gameplay and rules of the award-winning tile-based game of Rummikub were partly based on Robber's Rummy. Robbers' rummy Robbers' rummy is a card game for two or more players. It is a variant of German Rummy dating to the early 20th century. Being derived from normal rummy, it emphasises arrangement of cards based on card "matching" rules (generally simplified, but thereby no less challenging), while abandoning the notions of card "discards" or "scoring"