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 player is written down, and the player with the lowest total score at the end of the seven deals wins the game. In each deal the players reduce the value of the cards held in their hands by laying on the table those cards that fit a specific "contract" of Sets and Runs. The game is played with multiple standard 52-pack plus the jokers. 2 decks for three to five players. 3 decks for more players. The ranking from low-to-high is A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K-A. Aces can be low or high. Jokers are wild cards and can stand in for any other card.