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
Liverpool rummy The dealer deals 10 cards to each player for the first 3 rounds, then 12 cards to each player for the last rounds. After all the players' hands have been dealt, another card placed face-up in a central location known as the discard pile. The player to the immediate left of the dealer plays first. On each turn, a player: Play continues, in alternating turns, until one player "goes out", or has no cards left in their hand. Points are tallied and recorded by a score-keeper. All of the cards are shuffled and the next round of play commences. The