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# **Canasta**

Canasta is the great partnership rummy game: meld with jokers and twos, take the pile at the right moment and build canastas of seven cards.

4 - 4 Players

Bots available

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## **How do you want to play?**

Canasta is played two against two. Invite friends or fill the seats with bots.

**2 vs 2**

## **Canasta with a partner**

Invite three friends or play with bots as partner and opponents.

**Engine Support**

### **Play against bots**

Challenge strong bots and improve your gameplay. Adjust the bot strength to your level!

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  **bot****Easy****Medium****Hard**

## **How to play**

Canasta is rummy for two teams of two with two decks and four jokers. Lay out melds, build canastas of seven cards and go out first.

1. **1**### **Partners**

   **You play with the player opposite you.**

   Partners meld together: you can add to each other's melds.
2. **2**### **Your turn**

   **Draw, meld, discard.**

   Draw from the stock or take the whole discard pile. Then meld if you like, and end your turn with a discard. (Simplified: when the stock runs out, the hand ends.)
3. **3**### **Melds**

   **At least three cards of the same rank.**

   Suits don't matter, runs don't exist. Each side has at most one meld per rank.
4. **4**### **Wild cards**

   **Jokers and twos can stand in for any rank.**

   A meld needs at least two natural cards and may hold at most three wild cards.
5. **5**### **The first meld**

   **Your side's first meld needs a minimum of points.**

   50 points to start, 90 from 1,500 and 120 from 3,000 (15 below zero). Put several groups aside and meld them together.
6. **6**### **Taking the pile**

   **Meld the top card right away to take the whole pile.**

   Use natural cards of the same rank, or add it to your meld. With a wild card in the pile it is frozen: then you need two natural cards.
7. **7**### **Threes**

   **Red threes are bonus cards, black threes block.**

   Red threes are laid out at once and replaced (100 each, 800 for all four). A black three on the pile blocks it for the next player.
8. **8**### **Canasta**

   **Seven cards in a meld make a canasta.**

   Without wild cards it's natural (500), with wild cards mixed (300).
9. **9**### **Going out**

   **With at least one canasta you may meld or discard your last card.**

   Going out brings 100 points (200 in one go). Then all melds count, the cards left in hand count against you. First to 5000 wins.

## **Why Canasta online is fun**

### **Real team play**

Meld together with your partner and build canastas.

### **Hints before every move**

The game shows why a meld or taking the pile doesn't work yet.

### **Bots in three levels**

Bots that meld, take the pile and discard safely.

## Sitemap

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