Try playing in pairs but if you donвЂ™t have quite enough people to play pairs, you can easily adapt this to a two-person game. And if they havenвЂ™t played Canasta before, be sure to introduce them to this wildly fun game. Next time you are having some friends over be sure to have two decks on the ready.

A game created for no other reason than to have something other than Bridge to play and took the world by storm. Through this you can determine which cards you can safely discard without having others pick it up to improve their own hand.)Дuring a playerвЂ™s turn they can add cards to their teammatesвЂ™ melds. Try to keep track of what your opponents are discarding to see what they do not need. Red threeвЂ™s are not allowed to be used in melds and must be put on the table immediately with the melds but not as part of a meld.

These can be used in place of any card when melding or creating a canasta. Those card points would simply be deducted from the overall score.Д¬anasta also uses wild cards, which are the deuces and aces. When playing as a team, if one person on the team goes out, it is considered that the team goes out even if the second person in the team is still holding cards. Scores would be made up of each playerвЂ™s melds and canastas minus any cards they may have left in their hand if they havenвЂ™t gone out. If the Canasta is all-natural (without wildcards), each is worth 500. Canasta is worth 300 points each if wildcards were used to create.Red Threes are 100 points each, but if a team has all the red Threes, they receive 800 points.Sevens through Fours and black Threes are worth 5 points.Kings through Eights are worth 10 points each.Deuces and Aces are worth 20 points each.To make it easy, weвЂ™ve included a scoring list to help you remember the Canasta scoring. Plays continue until a team reaches 5,000 or more points. When someone is out of cards, this is known as вЂњgoing out.вЂќДЄt the point of someone going out, each teamвЂ™s points are tallied up, and a new game would begin. This continues until each player or team is out of cards in their hand and there are no stock cards left.

They would then discard one of their cards. They have the option of using that card to meld or not to meld. Each player takes a turn by drawing from the stockpile.

Original canasta card game rules