If melding of a card in hand is allowed, you can also meld by single-clicking on a specific meld area and the natural card would go there. To meld, either double-click on a card or drag the card into the meld area. Meld (if any meld is possible and subject to certain restrictions described below). Two cards with yellow underlines in your hand indicate the last two cards you took from a draw pile.Ģ. To draw a card, either double-click the closed stock or drag the card from there into your hand. Draw the top card(s) of the closed stock (drawing the top 2 cards from the closed stock is a default option, but the drawing of 1 card can be selected in setting up the table) or discard pile if permitted. A meld of seven or more cards is a canasta and the player must have at least one canasta to end the game (by default - 2 canastas are needed to end the game).Įach player in turn performs one or more actions in the following order:ġ. Points are earned by melding sets of three or more cards of the same rank. The object of the game is to be the first to score the agreed-upon number of points (default - 2,500 points). The rest of the deck is placed facedown to form the stock, and the top card of the stock is turned faceup and placed alongside the stock to start a discard pile. To avoid player collusion online, Gamecolony only supports two-player canasta variation. The biggest meld of all (7 cards), the canasta, is called a "basket".Ĭanasta is played with 108 cards, consisting of two standard 52-card packs with four Jokers. Tejiendo las cartas, that is, "weaving the cards", is a colorful Spanish way of saying that a meld of three of a kind or more is being "woven" together. The game also reached craze proportions in 1950s Britain. During the 50s, canasta was one of the most popular card games in the United States.
Write this score down on a notepad and add to it after each round ends.Canasta was invented in Uruguay around 1940. Each player adds up their own points and combines their total with their partner’s total for their official score. The round ends when the draw pile stock is exhausted or when all the players have gone out. Once you meld all of your remaining cards, you “go out” while the rest of the players continue taking turns. A dirty or mixed canasta (with at least 1 wildcard) is worth 300 points. A natural canasta (no wildcards) is worth 500 points. The goal of the game is to make as many canastas as you can before the game ends. As the game continues, players can add to their own existing melds on the table and to their partner's existing melds, too. End each turn by getting rid of one of your cards and placing it face up on the discard pile. After the first meld, you can play any combinations you want. Jokers are worth 50 points, aces and 2s are worth 20 points, any card from an 8 to a King is worth 10 points, cards from 4 to 7 are worth 5 points, and black 3s are worth 5 points.
Your first meld must be worth at least 50 points before you can play it. Wild cards can be any rank you want, so use those to make melds if you have them. Each meld must have at least 2 natural cards in it. To make melds, search your hand for at least 3 cards of the same rank and lay them face up in front of you. If they draw a red 3, they place it face up on the table to score an automatic 100 points, then pick another card from the draw pile. If the player doesn’t want to pick up the discard pile, they pick up the top card from the draw pile, add it their hand, and look for possible scoring opportunities. You also have to take the entire discard pile (not just the top card). To pull from the discard pile, you have to use the top card right away to form a meld. Every player’s turn begins by picking a card from either the draw pile or the discard pile. Gameplay starts with the player on the dealer’s left and goes clockwise around the table. If you turn over a bonus card (a joker, 2, or a red 3), keep pulling from the stack until the discard pile starts with a “natural” card (any non-bonus card). Stack the remaining cards in the middle of the table to form the draw pile and turn the top card in the stack over to create the discard pile. Then, everyone can pick up their cards and look at them. Pick 1 player to be the dealer and, starting with the person to their left, deal each player 11 cards facedown. To set up the game, pair into partners and shuffle 2 decks of cards together (jokers included). Canasta is a fun card game for 4 people where players try to make melds out of cards of the same rank until they "go out" by playing all the cards in their hand.
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