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
Viennese Rummy rules. Unless otherwise stated, the rules of the game are the same as those for German Rummy. The card values are as follows: Players now try to improve their hand by drawing and discarding cards, as they do in German Rummy. A game continues until one player calls "Rummy" ("Rommé"), melds ten cards and discards the eleventh. The other players then lay out their cards and count them up as in Gin Rummy, by summing their deadwood, i.e. those that cannot be placed into sets or runs. The game can also be ended by "knocking" ("klopfen"): if a player has