When a new hand is dealt, the hands of both players are checked to see if they contain a Red Three.

If this card is a Red Three or a wildcard, the procedure is repeated until the top card of the discard pile is neither a Red Three nor a wildcard.

At the beginning of a hand, the top card of the stock is automatically turned around and placed on the discard pile.

However, there may never be more wildcards than natural cards within one meld. The wildcard is then seen as a card of that rank (but the value remains unchanged).

It is possible to add a wildcard to a column of cards of any rank on the table.If a rank is melded, it must contain at least three cards on the table.A canasta match is over when one of the players reaches 5,000 points.A player can only finish a hand when he has at least one or two canastas, depending on the setting of the corresponding option. The scores of both players are then computed, and a new hand is dealt. A hand is over when one of the players has no cards left in his hand, or when there are no cards left on the stock.However, this is only allowed if he can directly meld the top card. Instead of drawing a card from the stock, a player may take the entire discard pile.Discarding a card is not necessary if the player can go out by melding all of his cards. At that point, his melded cards are checked to see if they conform to the canasta rules. When a player has melded his cards, he ends his turn by discarding a card.Once a card has been melded, it cannot be taken back into the hand (except with the Undo meld option). You cannot meld sequences like Four-Five-Six. Cards are melded in columns of at least three cards e.g. After drawing a card, a player may meld cards if (s)he wants to.Both players take turns in drawing the first card. Both players take turns in drawing one card from the stock, and discarding one card on the discard pile (in that order).Yours are visible at the bottom of the window.

Each player starts with 15 cards in hand.

A canasta is a meld of at least seven cards of the same rank. You score points by melding cards, and making as many canastas as possible.

Your goal is to beat your opponent by scoring more points.

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