Five Crowns (game) with more players if the cards from 2 sets are mixed together. The game is played over 11 rounds, similar to the rummy style game Three Thirteen. In the first round, 3 cards are dealt to each player. In the second round, 4 cards are dealt to each player, and so on until round 11 where 13 cards are dealt to each player. As in the game Three Thirteen, players create sets or runs of 3 or more, using the Jokers and the current round's wild card as wilds. Each round has a different wild card (the 3's in the
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