Articles of category "Canasta"

You normally play Canasta with two standard 52 packs of cards with four jokers, which makes 108 cards that you will be playing with. They all have point values such as: Jokers, 50 points each, A, 2, 20 points each, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 10 points each, and the 7,6,5,4, 5 points each. The cards A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, are called natural cards. All the deuces (2) and the jokers are all wild cards. With restrictions, wild cards can be used during the game as substitutes for a natural card of any rank. The threes have special functions and values, depending on which variation of Canasta is being played.

If you are having a game night and you're the host you can have the game of Canasta for your party. The Canasta card game is fun and challenging. You and your guest will love the Canasta card game. You can find the rules of Canasta online and print them out. Make a copy of the rules of Canasta for each of your guests so that they will have it to refer to at your party and then they can keep it for future reference too.