Players can also play one or more cards off of a face-up meld on the table, even if the meld was played by another player. A meld is any group of 3 or 4 cards of the same number or any group of 3 or more cards of the same suit in sequence. They then play any melds in their hand face-down in front of them. On a player’s turn, they start by drawing a card from the face-down pile. The rest of the cards are placed face-down in the middle of the playing area. The dealer deals the cards out one at a time so they have 13 cards and the other two players each have 12 cards. Whoever rolls the highest number deals first.
The game starts with each player rolling a die. The game is played with a standard 52-card deck. Tongits is a 3-player card game where players make melds with the cards in their hands and try to score the fewest points.
