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
Crazy Eights designation for discharge of mentally unstable soldiers, Section 8. There are many variations of the basic game, and a number of different names including "Craits", "Last One", "Mau-Mau", "Pesten", "Rockaway", "Swedish Rummy", "Switch", "Last Card", "Screw Your Neighbor", Püskiyon, and "Tschausepp". Bartok, Mao, Quango, Zar, Taki, and Uno are more extreme variations. David Parlett describes Crazy Eights as "not so much a game as a basic pattern of play on which a wide variety of changes can be rung," noting that players can easily invent and explore new rules. Eight cards are dealt to each player (or seven in a