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 plays a meld; one of a singleton, "n" of a kind, a run of 3 or more singletons or a run of "n" of a kind. For example a run of 4 pairs might be {5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8}.

Subsequent players either pass or play a better set of the same meld, eg {8,8,9,9,10,10,J,J}. Twos are partly wild (they may represent any value already in the meld) and Jokers fully wild (they may represent anything).

Using wild cards, it is possible to play a meld of "10 of a kind" - 4 geunine cards, 4 twos and 2 jokers.