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
Indian Rummy the only difference being the number of card dealt: a set of 13 cards is dealt to each player. Indian Rummy is a card-melding game popular in the Indian sub-continent. It is a game of 2-6 players. For 2 players, 2 decks of cards are used. For more than 2 players, the game makes use of 3 decks. Each player gets 13 cards in the beginning; which they have to meld into valid sequences and/or sets. 5, 6, 7 of same suit, is an example of a sequence or run and 7, 7, 7 of different suit is a set.