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The 52 Qard Game Series · Season 3

Canasta

Seven of a kind is a canasta. Two decks, four jokers, five thousand to win.

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W.F.A. deck2 × 52+4cards in play
Canasta on the W.F.A. deck, on black velvet under a brass lamp
Canasta · Uruguay to the USA and worldwide

How to deal

Partners sit across the table. Deal eleven cards each from the double deck. Turn one card up to start the discard pile; a red Three, a Two or a joker on top freezes the pile from the start.

How to play

Draw two from the stock or, when you can use its top card at once, take the whole discard pile. Melds are three or more cards of one rank, with Twos and jokers as wild cards that may never outnumber the naturals. A partnership's first meld must reach a minimum that rises with its score. Red Threes are laid aside for a bonus; black Threes block the discard pile for one turn.

How you win

A canasta is a meld of seven cards: five hundred for a natural one, three hundred with wild cards. A side may go out only with a canasta made. Score the cards melded less the cards in hand, with bonuses for canastas, red Threes and going out. First partnership to five thousand wins.

W.F.A. deck setup for Canasta

Two W.F.A. decks. In each deck the 1s of two suits are the jokers and the other two 1s go back in the box: 108 cards.

Sixty seconds at the table

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