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 only "five" or fewer card points in deadwood (cards left unmelded in the hand ), he can knock. He then reveals his hand as in a rummy call and announces his deadwood score. The other players do the same, but unlike a rummy call, they can try to improve their hand by drawing and discarding a card if they knock. They may not touch other players' cards. Viennese Rummy is usually played in 'rubbers'. One rubber consists of several individual games. Before a game begins, each player contributes five chips to the pot ("Pot" or "Pulle"). After each game, the