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ALL ABOUT CANASTA
A BRIEF HISTORY AND THE BASIC RULES OF CANASTA Canasta was invented in Uruguay in the
early twentieth Century, it is a classic card game that spread to the USA in
1949. The name of the game, which means "basket" in Spanish, may come from
the tray used to hold the stock and discards.
Canasta is normally a 4-player game, but it can also be played by 2 or 6 players. 2 standard fifty-two-card decks and 4 jokers are used to make a 108-card deck. Players are divided into 2 competing groups, and partners sit across from one another. The object of the game is to be the 1st partnership to score five-thousand points. Points are earned by melding sets of 3 or more cards of the same rank. During the game, each player in turn draws the top two cards of the stockpile OR picks up the entire discard pile. Then you discard 1 card. (You can hold really large numbers of cards in your hand if you pick up several discard piles.) To win the game you need to discard all of your cards before your opponent does. |
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Like Gin Rummy, players pick up and
discard on each turn in order to form melds. Unlike Gin, straights and suits
do not matter in Canasta. Melds consist of three or more cards of the same
number. Players lay their melds face-up on the table on their turn. When
melds consist of seven or more cards of the same number, these special melds
are called "canastas." Canastas are worth bonus points. Two's and Jokers are wild. They can form melds with any other card, but they cannot be melded all by themselves. If you "meld out" (discard all of your cards) before your opponent, you win the hand! You must have at least one Canasta to meld out. If your opponent goes out first, all of the cards left in your hand are subtracted from your score as a penalty.
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IMPORTANT: You must complete each game in order to receive credit for your
Red 3's! You will receive credit for your red 3's when either you or your
opponent reaches 5,000 points.
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