Bluke 11 cards are dealt on the third hand, and so on until only 1 card is dealt, after which 2 are dealt, then 3, and so on all the way back to 13 (see more about ending the game below). Thus for a standard game of Bluke, a total of 25 hands are dealt. One player needs to be designated as score-keeper and will record bids, tally scores and keep track of how many cards are to be dealt for each hand. Once a hand has been dealt, the remaining cards (2 or more) are passed face down to 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