A player is only allowed to go out after their team has completed at least one Canasta. A red card is placed on top to indicate a pure Canasta and a black card on top to indicate a mixed Canasta. Once a Canasta is completed the cards are squared up. Once a player has gone out, in subsequent turns both they and their partner may add cards to those already played or play new melds, without having to meet the conditions to go out. The game continues in strict left to right turn and each player, when their turn arrives, must take the top card off the stock deck or take the discard pile with all the cards in it, ending their turn by discarding one of their cards. Play is completed with the forced discard of a card from the player’s hand. Taking cards from the discard pile is not obligatory, it is possible to go out using the cards held if they reach the required valuation. If the top card of the stock deck is taken, it is not necessary to display cards, however, if the top card of the discard pile is taken then going out is required. If a player’s hand is reduced to one card, they are obliged to announce this fact by saying “Pumpa” out loud and may not take a card from the discard pile unless the stock deck is finished. Taking the top card off the pile forces the player to take all the other cards that were in it. The pile can never be taken by using two wild cards. When the pile is frozen, that is to say when it contains a Red Three or wild card, it is necessary to have two natural cards in the hand equal to the top card on the pile in order to take it. The pile can also be taken when it is not frozen or when its top card is equal to that of a completed Canasta or that of an initial Canasta meld being played. After going out for the first time, the pair who did it can take the discard pile without fulfilling the second condition, and as for the first condition, it is sufficient to have a card equal to the card on the top of the pile, with the other being supplemented by a wild card. The other cards that go to form the discard pile cannot be used until the cards held have been played and the points needed to go out have been reached, using the top card of the pile. It is not necessary to satisfy this second condition if, at the time of going out, all the cards are displayed at once with a Concealed Canasta.īecause each pair plays their hand together, the two conditions need only be met by one player from each pair. The other cards in it can be melded or held. The top card of the pile must form part of the meld, being able to add its value to the others for the purpose of going out.

2 That the value of the cards that have to be displayed for the first time, in one or more melds, reach the points required to go out.Have a natural pair matching the top card on the pile.To take from the discard pile for the first time, two conditions are necessary: The “hand” starts the game, taking the top card off the stock deck or the card or cards from the discard pile. Only the top card of this pile can be seen, and no player can examine the cards that are in it. If the said card is a wild card, a deuce, a Black Three or a Red Three, then another card is taken, placing it on top of the first card until the said card is none of the ones mentioned. The dealer shuffles the cards and the deck is cut by the player on the dealer’s left, the dealer then deals out eleven cards to each player, one by one, in an anti-clockwise direction, with the next card being placed face-up on the table. The player seated to the left of the one who drew the highest card, the “hand”, is the dealer. Each player draws one card, the two players with the highest cards play against the other two.

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