If you wish, you can meld after drawing, the turn ends by discarding a card to discard pile.

On each turn you either draw the top card from the face-down stock (draw deck) or take the whole of the discard pile. If all of the cards in it are natural, it is called a natural canasta (500 points), if it includes one or more wildĬards it is called a mixed canasta (300 points). Of wild cards should not exceed the number of natural card and be less or equal to 3.Ī meld of seven cards is called a canasta. Every meld must contain at least two natural cards, the number Wild cards (jokers and twos) can be used in melds. Short Canasta rules: Each player is dealt 15 cards, the rest of the deck is placed face-down to form the stock,Īnd the top card of the stock is turned face-up and placed alongside the stock to start a discard pile. The object of the game is to score points by melding cards. It is played with two standard 52 card packs plus four jokers (two from each pack), 108 cards in all.

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