Freeze the pile
Throw a wild card on the discard pile and it freezes for everyone until somebody takes it.
Rummy and melding · 4 players in two partnerships
Seven of a kind and a frozen pile
Canasta is a partnership game played with two decks, four jokers and plenty of wild cards. You and your partner build melds of one rank, push them seven deep for a canasta, and fight over a discard pile that can freeze against you.
- 4 players in two partnerships
- Lesson included
- No ads
Canasta is one of the 21 games in Cards Royale.
How it plays
Canasta in three steps.
Two full decks plus four jokers make 108 cards, eleven to each player, with jokers and twos wild and red threes going straight down as bonuses.
Draw one card or take the whole pile, meld cards of one rank with your partner, and discard one card to finish your turn.
Natural canastas score 500 and mixed ones 300, red threes add bonuses, and the first side to 5,000 points wins.
Read the full rules of Canasta
Did you know? Canasta comes from Uruguay and swept across America as a craze in the 1950s.
The moments you play for
Why Canasta gets under your skin.
Two partners and a long evening.
Take the whole pile
Meld the top card at once and the entire discard pile is yours, buried cards and all.
Go out concealed
Lay down your whole hand in one turn, with nothing melded before, and going out scores two hundred instead of one hundred.
Screenshots
Canasta on every screen.
The same table on iPhone, iPad, Mac and the iPhone Duo. Scroll sideways to see them all.
- iPhone
iPhone Duo, half open
iPhone Duo, unfolded
iPhone Duo, folded
iPad, landscape
iPad, portrait
Mac
Rummy and melding
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Deal me in for Canasta.
It is one of 21 classics in Cards Royale. Free, with no ads.