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
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