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
Viennese Rummy knocker or rummy caller wins the so-called "knock money", i.e. a chip from all other participants still in play. Furthermore, for each player the negative points ("Schlechtpunkte") received in this game are noted and added cumulatively. Once a player has accumulated 101 or more points, they are eliminated; if all but one player is eliminated, the remaining player wins the pot and the game is over. If a player has already accumulated over 81 but not yet 101 negative points, he may 'buy himself back' into the pot by contributing an additional five chips and reducing his bad point score