Viennese Rummy It is suitable for two to six players. Each player is dealt ten cards, except for the dealer who receives eleven. Like German Rummy, there are no standardised rules for Viennese Rummy. In fact a raft of almost identical games go under very different names including 101 Rummy and Elimination Rummy. Knock Rummy is a generic name for rummy games where players only reveal their hand at the end of the game. Another very special variant for two people is the popular Gin Rummy. The following rules are therefore not to be regarded as binding in the sense of chess
German Rummy dealer reshuffles the cards and lets his right-hand neighbour cut the deck. In many cases, the rule is that if a player finds a joker when cutting, he may keep it. This is known as robbing or plundering ("rauben"), not to be confused with the rule allowing a joker to be exchanged (see below). The cards are dealt face down clockwise, each player is dealt "thirteen" cards in 3 packets of three and 1 packet of four; the dealer himself takes "fourteen". The remaining cards are placed face down in the middle of the table as a "Stoß" (i.e. a