If a player has a red 3 in their hand, they must immediately place it on the table along with the melds.

The team that goes out and ends the round receives an additional 100 points. If a team has all of the red 3’s, however, they receive 800 points Going Out. CanastasĪ canasta without any wildcards is worth an additional 500 points while a canasta with wildcards is worth an additional 300 points. Points are given from the difference between melded cards and unmelded cards. In Canasta, Jokers are worth 50 points, Aces and 2’s are worth 20 points, Kings through 8’s are worth 10 points and 7’s through 4’s and black 3’s are worth 5 points. Points are given in 4 ways: Card Values, Canastas, Red 3’s, and Going Out. Once a team has at lease one canasta and one of the players runs out of their cards, they can “go out” and end the round. Players continue to build upon melds in hopes to get a canasta, a meld of seven or more cards. At the end of your turn, you must discard one card. If you take from the discard pile, you must take all of the cards in the discard pile. To take a card from the discard pile, the top card must either help begin a meld or build upon one already made. At the beginning of their turn they must take a card from either the stock or the discard pile. The gameplay moves clockwise from the dealer. Melds must have, however, more natural cards than wildcards in them. The four Jokers and eight 2’s in the deck are wildcards and can be used to build upon any meld. A meld must begin with at least three cards.

Melds are formed by matching cards of the same rank. Teammates sit across from each other and work together to form more melds than the other team. The dealer position rotates clockwise at the end of each round. The top card of the stock is turned upright and placed to the side to form the discard pile. The remaining cards are placed faced down to form the stock. The dealer then passes 11 cards one by one clockwise to each of the four players. The initial dealer shuffles the deck and the player to their right cuts it. To do so, every player is given a card from a shuffled deck and whoever receives the highest card becomes the first dealer. Set Upīefore the game begins an initial dealer must be chosen.

If you are looking for cards to play Canasta with, check out a standard pack here or one of our more recent arrivals here. The objective of Canasta is for your team to reach 5000 points first.įor other Rummy type games, see our guides for Classic Rummy and Gin. (A typical game of Canasta in action) Card Game RulesĬanasta is a Rummy type game of melding that is played with two 52 playing card decks and two teams of 2.

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