You may not discard a red Three unless the table was created with 'Red Three Freezes' game option (see Game Options). Black threes may only be melded when going out, in which case the meld must consist of a set of three or four black threes without wild cards.Īfter drawing and optional melding, you complete your turn by discarding a card face up on the discard pile (unless you go out and have nothing left to discard). Red threes may not be melded or discarded (except in 'Red 3 Freezes' game option, where a red Three can be discarded. A canasta must contain at least four natural cards. However, all melds must contain at least two natural cards, no meld may contain more than three wild cards, and no meld may contain more wild cards than natural cards.Ī canasta is a meld of seven or more cards. Jokers and deuces (twos) are wild cards that can be used as cards of any rank in a meld. Points are only scored for melds that are made before the hand ends. To meld, you need a set of at least three cards of the same rank placed face up on the table (in front of your hand). If the upcard is a black Three, you may not take it you need to draw from stock. If discard is frozen, you may only take it if you can immediately use the upcard to start a new meld in conjunction with at least two matching natural cards (see Game Options). when it contains a wild card (or a red Three as the result of initial deal).You may not take the discard pile if it is frozen. Instead of drawing from stock, you may draw the whole of the discard pile if you can immediately meld the upcard - either by adding it to one of your existing melds or by using it to start a new meld together with two or more matching cards from your hand (see Game Options). (If a replacement card is again a red Three, the process of replacement is repeated until the replacement card is not a red Three.) If you draw a red Three, it is placed face up in front of you and another (replacement) card is drawn for you. You may always take the top card(s) of the stock and add to your hand. To force discarding a card, hold down the Ctrl key and either double-click or right-click with your mouse on a card. To discard, either drag the card into the discard pile or (if you can't legally meld this card) double-click on it. Discard (unless you go out by melding all cards left in hand). Right-mouse button menu can also be used - close to the end of the hand - to meld all naturals at once.ģ. It is possible to 'undo' the meld (undo one card at at a time or all at once) by clicking on 'Undo' button or Delete key for a single undo or by using a right mouse button menu (or Shift Delete) for multiple undo. If you have no natural card for that meld area, the wild card will go there (starting with a Joker). 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. Canasta was invented in Uruguay around 1940.
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